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MythBusters: Highlighting helps me study
You have a test this week, so you lay out your set of highlighters, open your textbook (for what may be the first time), and embark on your mission to know every important detail for your test. This is a common experience and everyone seems to think that highlighting ‘key points’ in the text is…
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Social Cognition and Language
Humans and non-human animals alike have to process and respond to specific information about their social environments in order to navigate the social world. But language seems to shape how we process and respond to such information. So are certain forms of social cognition uniquely human?