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Finding language in the brain

9 mins | Dec 9, 2022
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Insight into the evolving field of neurolinguistics, where neuroscience and linguistics meet. It is known that mathematical systems are helpful for understanding language, but language itself could also be seen as a system for computation. Giosuè Baggio reflects on this idea and argues that language is the "software" being run by the human "hardware" of the brain.

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