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Go to Games with Words website. Test your language sense! Play a game while participating in cutting-edge research. How good is your language sense? Go to The Genetics of Perception and cognition website. Help answer questions like: How does the human brain work? How do genes affect cognitive...
The Better Angels of Our Nature - Interviews and Adaptations by Steven Pinker
Interviews and Adaptations by the Author
Re-Release of Book: Learnability And Cognition, The Acquisition of Argument Structure (New Edition)
Appearance on the Colbert Report
TSA Expansion Program
Release of new book: Language, Cognition and Human Nature: Selected Articles
New book to be released October 25, 2013
Review Excerpts for The Blank Slate
[A] lucid view of what makes humans human. ... A rich, sophisticated argument that may leave pious souls a little uneasy. — Kirkus Reviews, August 1, 2002 Pinker is a fluent writer, superb at explaining difficult ideas for general readers. He keeps his writing alive with humour, stories, cartoons...
Review Excerpts for Words and Rules
A gem. —Mark Aronoff, New York Times Book Review, Nov. 28, 1999 A treat. —Jan Freeman, Boston Globe, Dec. 5, 1999 A deliciously erudite, if somewhat grainy, glass of Metamucil for the legion of English speakers troubled by irregular verbs. —William Safire, New York Times Magazine, Dec. 12, 1999 An...
Review Excerpts for Language Learnability and Language Development
"A fiercely reasoned, bently written landmark of psychological science." —Roger Brown "Altogether, this book is truly rare. It makes one think about how work should be done in the field, points out many present difficulties insightfully, and is full of interesting proposals and analyses... a...