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Prof. Iris Berent is a cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University. She’s the author of ‘The Phonological Mind’ and ‘The Blind Storyteller’. Her current research seeks to unveil human nature and our intuitive understanding of it. To shed light on human nature, she explores the human capacity for language using phonology as a case study. In this episode, we discuss theories of cognition, the debate in linguistics between Chomsky and Skinner, innate knowledge, essentialism and dualism.
Find more on Prof. Berent at https://cos.northeastern.edu/people/iris-berent/
The Blind Storyteller: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48930049
The Phonological Mind: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/phonological-mind/DF2E8903E25D74900793011BF1B54566
RSam Podcast #28
Reference Links
The “Hard Problem of Consciousness” Arises from Human Psychology: https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi_a_00094/117074/The-Hard-Problem-of-Consciousness-Arises-from
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