Robert Thibadeau
1 min readDec 28, 2022

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This is a nice overview of what I would call a simplistic view of language neuroscience. The profoundly wrong attribution from a scientific point of view is this uninformed quote about the relationship between language and cognition in humans. Humans are not unique in use of sounds, innate species communications, and such but are profoundly unique in our ability to communicate our internal cognitive (or if you wish, "conscious") state within our species. All human NATURAL languages are unique in this and they make us uniquely human. Furthermore, the organization of computations is fundamental to what neurons have always done for a living (in any animal).

Here is modern language neuroscience good for any human natural language and any animal natural language, in a much much less expressive way, as well. Here is the proof that anyone can confirm in any human natural language to another human (but not any other animal).

https://medium.com/liecatcher/how-your-brain-computes-41ebe7428ff9

Humans have a unique human natural language organ for this between their ears inside their skull:

https://medium.com/liecatcher/natural-language-and-your-brain-237185770b00

Here is how that organ evolved and a huge unanswered scientific question for a certain kind of inherited memory in neural systems as well as proof of that memory ... also discussed indirectly in this quite nice review article on the scientifically shallow analysis of language.

https://medium.com/liecatcher/the-natural-evolution-of-human-lies-655e983ee6c6

The Linguist Noam Chomsky seems to have been right all along by modern current language neuroscience.

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Robert Thibadeau
Robert Thibadeau

Written by Robert Thibadeau

Carnegie Mellon University since 1979 — Cognitive Science, AI, Machine Learning, one of the founding Directors of the Robotics Institute. rht@brightplaza.com

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