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Nature 450, 29-30 (1 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450029a; Published online 31 October 2007
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Poetry in motion
Patricia Churchland1
Abstract
Is language the key to thought? Neuroscience suggests it is probably more complicated than that.
BOOK REVIEWED-The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
Viking: 2007. 512 pp. $29.95
The conventional wisdom in psycholinguistics in the 1980s was that thought is like external language in all important respects. Each of us, the argument went, comes genetically equipped with a 'language of thought' that is reflected in the structure and organization of speech.
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