The Cognition Project

Chomsky, Chimpsky, and Beyond: Tom Bever

The Cognition Project

Show Notes

The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

This episode is with Tom Bever, who took a circuitous path that led him through several important events in the cognitive revolution. Bever ultimately became an influential psycholinguist in his own right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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