About Language of Mind

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What's the Language of Mind?

My name is Ryan, and I'm a cognitive scientist! On this channel, I'll be covering intriguing research in linguistics and cognitive science across a spectrum of topic areas.

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How smart were the dinosaurs? Reconstructing dinosaur brains and cognition

I love dinosaurs! In the last 100 years paleontologists have learned a lot about their anatomy, behavior, and lifestyles, but dinosaur cognition has been elusive. How smart were the dinosaurs? Using the most recent discoveries in paleontology, neuroscience, and animal behavior research, can we rec…

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Enes Avcu - neuroscientist in exile

Enes Avcu is a neurolinguist and a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Enes studies how the brain processes language, but his academic journey has come at a tremendous cost - he may never be able to return to his home coun…

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AI still hasn't mastered this skill

Take the teacup challenge! My linguist friend Shannon Bryant has been playing with AI art generators lately, and she thinks she's found something they just can't do. This particular weakness was pointed out by cognitive scientists in the late 1980s - and it still hasn't been resolved! Can you get…

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