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Until quite recently, researchers tended to study human cognition in terms of what they understood best rather than in terms of what people did best. Marr and Nishihara (1978) made this point rather nicely
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Keyser, S.J. (1984). Why Study Human Language?. In: Gazzaniga, M.S. (eds) Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2177-2_8
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