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== Further reading == {{refbegin}} * {{cite book | author-link1 = Alfredo Ardila | vauthors = Ardila A |title=Historical Development of Human Cognition. A Cultural-Historical Neuropsychological Perspective |publisher=Springer |year=2018 |isbn= 978-9811068867}} * {{cite book | vauthors = Coren S, Ward LM, Enns JT |title=Sensation and Perception |publisher=Harcourt Brace |year=1999 |page=9 |isbn= 978-0-470-00226-1}} * {{cite book | veditors = Lycan WG | date = 1999 | title = Mind and Cognition: An Anthology | edition = 2nd | location = Malden, MA | publisher = [[Wiley-Blackwell|Blackwell Publishing]] }} * {{Cite book |title=What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought |last=Stanovich |first=Keith |year=2009 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven (CT) |isbn=978-0-300-12385-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whatintelligence00stan }} {{refend}} * [[Gary Stix|Stix, Gary]], "Thinking without Words: Cognition doesn't require language, it turns out" (interview with [[Evelina Fedorenko]], a [[cognitive neuroscientist]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]), ''[[Scientific American]]'', vol. 332, no. 3 (March 2025), pp. 86β88. "[I]n the tradition of [[linguist]] [[Noam Chomsky]]... we use [[language]] for [[thinking]]: to think is why language evolved in our species. [However, evidence that thought and language are separate systems is found, for example, by] looking at deficits in different abilities β for instance, in people with brain damage... who have impairments in language β some form of [[aphasia]] [ β yet are clearly able to think]." (p. 87.) Conversely, "[[large language models]] such as [[GPT-2]]... do language very well [but t]hey're not so good at thinking, which... nicely align[s] with the idea that the language system by itself is not what makes you think." (p. 88.)
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