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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 27 Sep 2015

    The most important paper in cognitive neuroscience in many years: How does the brain represent who did what to whom?http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/long/112/37/11732 …

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      1. Colin Forster‏ @colinwforster 27 Sep 2015
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker A gay man in Khartoum Took a lesbian up to his room They argued all night About who had the right To do what with what & to whom

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      1. @reiver ⊼ (Charles Iliya Krempeaux)‏ @reiver 28 Sep 2015
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        An architecture for encoding sentence meaning in left mid-superior temporal cortex http://www.pnas.org/content/112/37/11732.long … H/T @sapinker

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      1. markrego‏ @markregomd 28 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker does Chomsky get a nod for universal grammar here?

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      1. aaron‏ @lostincosmos 28 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker I know that's not the point, but it seems it would affect how brains react and color interpretation?

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      1. aaron‏ @lostincosmos 28 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker interesting. Curious how we separate emotional content - grandpa kicks baby surely spurs emotional reaction that mirror doesn't?

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      2. Chloe Luv‏ @ChloeLuv_PSO 28 Sep 2015
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        Fascinating and revealing study. "the explicit representation of abstract semantic variables in distinct neural circuits plays... @sapinker

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      3. Chloe Luv‏ @ChloeLuv_PSO 28 Sep 2015
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        ...a critical role in enabling human brains to compose complex ideas out of simpler ones." Also this part...@sapinkerpic.twitter.com/pEdZGMpyXt

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      1. Casper Hulshof‏ @CasperHuls 28 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker @FeysRaf And the best thing is: it confirms cognitive psychological theories about sentence processing.

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      1. Aaron Gretsinger‏ @aaronomus 27 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker so this shows that language is a necessary component of consciousness after all? That debate has always fascinated me.

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      1. Matt Way‏ @_MattWay 27 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker typical "breakthrough" paper shows what the ml community has known for years.

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      2. J. 🎃P = .06 🎃 de Ruiter‏ @JPdeRuiter 27 Sep 2015
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        @sapinker Paywall?

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      3. Dan Tobias‏ @dantobias 27 Sep 2015
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        @JPdeRuiter @sapinker It didn't seem to be paywalled when I accessed it.

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      4. J. 🎃P = .06 🎃 de Ruiter‏ @JPdeRuiter 27 Sep 2015
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        @dantobias @sapinker Thanx for feedback. I'll try again.

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