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Jun 22, 2024

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought

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Evelina Fedorenko, Steven T. Piantadosi & Edward A. F. Gibson MIT June 2024 https://nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07522-w.

Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has…


Evidence from neuroscience and related fields suggests that language and thought processes operate in distinct networks in the human brain and that language is optimized for communication and not for complex thought.

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