Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
Nature, 2024. [All Versions]. This perspective brings recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. The authors begins by introducing…
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AGI & CoCoSci › Papers > Communications > Language Compositionality: “Nature, 2024. [All Versions]. This perspective brings recent evidence from neuroscience and allied disciplines to argue that in modern humans, language is a tool for communication, contrary to a prominent view that we use language for thinking. The authors begins by introducing…”