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Science 1 January 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5398, pp. 40 - 41
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5398.40
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Perspectives

Also see the archival list of Science's Compass: Enhanced Perspectives

COGNITION:
Enhanced: Out of the Minds of Babes

Steven Pinker

How does the brain reason and calculate? In his Perspective Pinker traces the history of this question and its answers. A new study in this issue reveals that 7-month-old infants can use rules to analyze their surroundings, changing the landscape of this debate.

The author is in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: steve{at}psyche.mit.edu

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