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Explores the connections between thinking, language and communication. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman discusses his research in cognitive psychology. With the help of linguists he shows that few of our decisions are based on rational thought. Noam Chomsky, along with others, explains the principles of language acquisition. Susan Curtiss provides an account of a young girl who was abused by her parents and did not learn to speak until she was fourteen years old. Curtiss's research implies that language acquisition is fundamental to brain organization. Closed captioned. Judgment. Psycholinguistics. | |