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  2. Shankar Vedantam - Wikipedia

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    His first nonfiction book, The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, was published in 2010. [1] His second nonfiction book (co-written with Bill Mesler), Useful Delusions: The Power and Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain , was published in 2021.

  3. Valdimar Ásmundsson - Wikipedia

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    Valdimar knew German, English and French as well as Danish, but he had mostly learned all these languages himself. He was also very good at Icelandic. He was also very good at Icelandic. He wrote a book on Icelandic grammar, which soon became a widely used textbook.

  4. Cognitive grammar - Wikipedia

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    Construction grammar is a similar focus of cognitive approaches to grammar. [3] While cognitive grammar emphasizes the study of the cognitive principles that give rise to linguistic organization, construction grammar aims to provide a more descriptively and formally detailed account of the linguistic units that comprise a particular language. [3]

  5. Innateness hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Language and grammar are only learned through exposure and accumulated experience. This is also called the "nurture" perspective as opposed to the "nature" perspective (linguistic nativism). Chomsky's innateness hypothesis contradicts the belief by John Locke that our knowledge, including language, cannot be innate and is instead derived from ...

  6. 8 surprising ways your brain powers the rest of your body - AOL

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    The cerebellum (Latin for “little brain”) is a distinct part of your brain that is attached to the rest of your brain at the back of your head. The cerebellum is only about one-tenth the size ...

  7. Language center - Wikipedia

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    The frontal speech regions of the brain have been shown to participate in speech sound perception. [5] Broca's Area is today still considered an important language center, playing a central role in processing syntax, grammar, and sentence structure.

  8. Psychological nativism - Wikipedia

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    In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are "native" or hard-wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to the "blank slate" or tabula rasa view, which states that the brain has inborn capabilities for learning from the environment but does not contain content such as innate beliefs.

  9. Verbal intelligence - Wikipedia

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    English alphabet. Letters form the basis for many languages, including English. Verbal intelligence is the ability to understand and reason using concepts framed in words. More broadly, it is linked to problem solving, abstract reasoning, [1] and working memory. Verbal intelligence is one of the most g-loaded abilities. [2]