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Dec 04, 1997
Steven Pinker, professor of psychology and director of the Center of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses his 1997 publication, How the Mind Works (1997). Pinker, who previously authored The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (1994), focuses this lecture on his theories about how the human brain works, explaining the engineering and apparent quirks of brain. His theories are based heavily on evolutionary psychology and terminology, including Computational Theory, and attempt to explain how the brain achieves intelligence. The lecture is followed by questions from the audience.
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