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A Short Biography of Steven Pinker

Author Name:

Steven Pinker

Born As:

Steven Arthur Pinker

Other Names:

Born:

18 Sep 1954

Died:





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Experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist and science writer                          
Selected Works:

Books:

Language Learnability and Language Development - 1984
Visual Cognition - 1985
Connections and Symbols - 1988
Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure - 1989
Lexical and Conceptual Semantics - 1992
The Language Instinct - 1994
How the Mind Works - 1997
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language - 1999
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - 2002
The Best American Science and Nature Writing - editor and introduction author, 2004
Hotheads - an extract from How the Mind Works, 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature - 2007

Articles and essays:

Pinker, S. - 1991 Rules of Language

Ullman, M., Corkin, S., Coppola, M., Hickok, G., Growdon, J. H., Koroshetz, W. J., & Pinker, S. - 1997 A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, 289–299.

Pinker, S. - 2003 Language as an adaptation to the cognitive niche. In M. Christiansen & S. Kirby - Eds., Language evolution: States of the Art. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pinker, S. - 2005 So How Does the Mind Work? Mind and Language, 20- 1, 1–24.

Jackendoff, R. & Pinker, S. - 2005 The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language - Reply to Fitch, Hauser, & Chomsky Cognition, 97- 2, 211–225.

S. Pinker - 2007, "In Defense of Dangerous Ideas" - Chicago Sun-Times, July 15, 2007, http://richarddawkins.net/article,1449,In-defense-of-dangerous-ideas,Steven-Pinker