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Pinker in 2011. Pinker's research on visual cognition, begun in collaboration with his thesis adviser, Stephen Kosslyn, showed that mental images represent scenes and objects as they appear from a specific vantage point (rather than capturing their intrinsic three-dimensional structure), and thus correspond to the neuroscientist David Marr's theory of a "two-and-a-half-dimensional sketch."
Stephen Michael Kosslyn (born 1948) is an American psychologist and neuroscientist [1] He is a former dean of social sciences at Harvard University. [ 2 ] Kosslyn is the president of Active Learning Sciences Inc., which helps institutions design, deliver, and assess active-learning based courses and educational programs. [ 3 ]
Steven Pinker claims that the cognitive revolution bridged the gap between the physical world and the world of ideas, concepts, meanings and intentions. It unified the two worlds with a theory that mental life can be explained in terms of information, computation and feedback.
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress is a 2018 book written by Canadian-American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker.It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress, and that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide.
Language. Steven Pinker; Elizabeth Bates; Brian MacWhinney; Thomas Bever; Marta Kutas; Laura-Ann Petitto; Morton Gernsbacher; Angela D. Friederici; Giordana Grossi
Allison Holker is opening up about how she believes her late husband, Stephen "tWitch" Boss, still visits with her and their family after he died by suicide in December 2022.. Boss first visited ...
Stephen Kosslyn; Elizabeth Kübler-Ross; Fritz Künkel, we-psychology; L ... Steven Pinker, (experimental psychology, cognitive science) Robert Plomin; Michael Posner;
Allison Holker shares on a podcast how Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, who died of suicide in December 2022, visited her after his death.