Curriculum Vitae

Steven Pinker

Department of Psychology

Harvard University

William James Hall 970

Cambridge, MA 02l38

33 Kirkland St.

Office: 617-495-0831

Fax: 617-495-3278

Internet address: pinker at wjh period Harvard period edu

Web site: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu

Biographical Information

Born September 18, 1954, Montreal, Canada

U. S. Citizen

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Experimental Psychology), Harvard University, 1979.

Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honors in Psychology), McGill University, 1976.

Diploma of College Studies, Dawson College, 1971.

Academic Positions

2003- Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

2000-2003 Peter de Florez Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1994-99 Director, McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT

1989-2000 Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1985-94 Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

1985-89 Associate Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1982-85 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1981-82 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

1980-81 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

1979-80 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Honors and Awards

General:

Honorary President, Canadian Psychological Association, 2008.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Albion College, 2007.

Humanist of the Year, American Humanist Association, 2006.

Communication and Leadership Award, Toastmasters International (District 31), 2006.

Prospect and Foreign Policy, “The World’s Top 100 Public Intellectuals,” 2005.

02138 Magazine: “The Harvard 100: The Most Influential Alumni,” 2006.

Doctor of Science honoris causa, University of Newcastle, 2005.

Time 100: “The 100 Most Influential People in the World Today,” 2004.

Doctor of the University honoris causa, University of Surrey, 2003.

Doctor Philosophiae honoris causa, Tel Aviv University, 2003

Humanist Laureate, International Academy of Humanism, 2001.

Doctor of Science honoris causa, McGill University, 1999.

Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement, 1999.

Newsweek One Hundred Americans for the Next Century, 1995.

Esquire Register of Outstanding Men and Women Under Forty, 1986.

Research:

Henry Dale Prize, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 2004.

Troland Research Award, National Academy of Sciences, April 1993.

Boyd R. McCandless Young Scientist Award, Division of Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1986.

Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1984.

Books: The Language Instinct

Public Interest Award, Linguistics Society of America, 1997.

William James Book Prize, American Psychological Association, 1995.

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice: Ten Best Books of 1994.

Finalist, Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, 1994.

One Hundred Best Science Books of the Century, American Scientist.

Honorable Mention, Best Books of the 1990s, Lingua Franca

Books: How the Mind Works

William James Book Prize, American Psychological Association, 1999.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology, 1998.

Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, 1998.

Ten Best Books of the Decade / One Hundred Best Books of the Century, Amazon.com, 1999.

Good Book Guide Award: Best Science Book of 1998.

Finalist, Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, 1999.

Finalist, National Book Critics' Circle Award, 1998.

Finalist, Winship Book Prize, PEN New England, 1998.

Literary Lights, Boston Public Library, 1998.

Books to Remember (25 best of 1997), New York Public Library, 1998.

Best Books of 2002, Publishers Weekly

Honored Author, Newton Public Library, 2000.

Great Brain Books, Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives.

Books: The Blank Slate

50 Psychology Classics, T. Butler-Bowdon, Brealey Publishing, 2007

Kistler Book Award, Foundation for the Future, 2005

William James Book Prize, American Psychological Association, 2003

Eleanor Maccoby Book Award, American Psychological Association, 2003

Literary Lights, Boston Public Library, 2005.

Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, 2003.

Finalist, Aventis Science Book Prize, 2003.

Book of the Year 2003, Yorkshire Post

Best Books of 2002: amazon.com, Borders Bookstores, The Evening Standard, The Globe and Mail, The Independent, The Los Angeles Times, New Statesman, New York Times (“Notable Books”), Publishers Weekly, The Spectator, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement

Books: The Stuff of Thought

Editors’ Picks: Ten Best Science Books of 2007, amazon.com

Teaching:

School of Science Teaching Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, MIT, 2001

Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT, 2000-2003.

Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, MIT, 1986.

Essays:

Sidney Hook Award, best essays of 2005 (from David Brook’s New York Times column), “The Science of Gender and Science” with Elizabeth Spelke.

Elected Fellowships in Scholarly Societies:

Fellow, Linguistics Society of America, 2007- .

Herbert Simon Fellow, The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2006- .

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998-.

Fellow, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, 2000-.

Fellow, Neurosciences Research Program, 1995-2002.

Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1992- .

Fellow, Division of Experimental Psychology, American Psychological Association, 1991- .

Fellow, American Psychological Society, 1990- .

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987- .

Distinguished Fellow, New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, 2001-2004.

Fellow-elect, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA, 1981- .

Grants

National Institutes of Health, “Development and Neural Bases of Words and Rules,” 2000-2007.

MIT Classes of ’51, ’55, and ’72 Funds for Excellence in Teaching and Educational Innovation, “Computer-Based Multimedia Demonstrations in Psychology,” 2000-2001.

National Institutes of Health, “Language Learnability and Language Development”, 1983-2000 (competitively renewed 1986, 1989, 1994).

National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant, “Development of Cognition,” 1997-2002 (PI 2001-2002).

National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant, “Visual Cognition,” 1998-2003 (PI 1998-2001).

American Council of Learned Societies/Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, German American Collaborative Research Grant, “Symbolic Representation and Network Models: The Psycholinguistic Basis of Inflectional Morphology,1992-1993.

National Science Foundation Research Training Grant, “Language Acquisition and Computation” (1 of 15 Co-Investigators), 1991-1996.

McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience grant, “From Perception to Action,” 1990-1998 (competitively renewed 1994).

National Science Foundation, “Inflection as a Model System for the Psychology of Language,” 1991-1994.

National Institutes of Health, “Development of Cognition”, program training grant (1 of 6 Co-Investigators), 1987-1992.

National Science Foundation, “The Mental Representation of 3-D Space and Objects, 1986-89.

National Science Foundation, “Language Learnability and Language Development”, 1982-85.

National Science Foundation, “The Mental Representation of 3-D Space”, 1981-83.

Other Positions

Visiting Professor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, 2007

Honorary Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2001-2007

Visiting Scholar, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1995-96.

Faculty, McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, 1990, 1993, 1994

Visiting Scholar, Cognitive Development Unit, Medical Research Council, London, UK, 1988.

Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 1987-88.

Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, 1987-88.

Consultant, Cognitive and Instructional Sciences Group, Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Centers, 1981-82.

Recent Professional Activities

Contributing Editor, The New Republic, 2007- .

Board of Advisors, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2007- .

Editorial Advisory Board, The Humanist, 2007- .

Board of Directors, E. O. Wilson Foundation, 2007- .

Global Science Advisor, Earth & Sky, 2007- .

Executive Council, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 2006- .

Advisory Board, World Science Festival, New York, 2006- .

Editorial Board, PLoS ONE Behavioral Genomics, 2006- .

Advisory Board, Naturalism Research Project, Center for Inquiry.

Advisory Board, BrainTrust Project.

Linguistics, Language, and the Public Interest Award Committee, Linguistics Society of America, 2006-2007.

Member-at-Large, Section on Linguistics and Language Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005-2009.

National Advisory Board, Office of Public Policy, Center for Inquiry, Washington DC, 2006- .

Contributing Editor, Seed magazine, 2004-present.

Chair, Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize Committee, Division of Developmental Psychology, American Psychological Association, 2004.

Advisory Board, Secular Coalition for America

National Advisory Committee, The Decade of Behavior, 2003-2005.

Panel on Integrative Cognitive Science, National Science Foundation, 2003.

Advisory Board, Center for Research on Language, Mind, and Brain, McGill University, 2003-present.

Testimony, President’s Council on Bioethics, 2003.

Grant review panel, Program in Biological Anthropology, National Science Foundation, 2002.

Executive Board, Society for Language Development, 2003- .

Jury, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Excellence in the Literature of Diversity, 2002-present.

Institute Advisor, Allen Institute for Brain Science, 2001-present.

Science Advisory Board, English for the Children, 2001-2004.

Advisory Council, Student Achievement and Advocacy Services, 2002-present.

Editorial Board, Daedalus, 2002-present.

Editorial Advisory Board, Words, 2002-present.

Advisory Editorial Board, Trends in Cognitive Science, 2000-present.

Senior Independent Advisory Panel, Biopsychology of Humane Leadership Project, Center for Positive Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 2000.

Scientific Advisor, Nova/WGBH, 7-part television series on Evolution, 1998-2001.

Panel on the Bioethics of Brain Imaging, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-2002.

Usage Panel, American Heritage Dictionary, 1995-present.

Founders’ Circle, Endangered Language Fund, 1998-present.

Cybereditions, Advisory Board, 1998-present.

Selection Committee, Centennial Fellowship in Human Cognition, McDonnell Foundation, 1998.

Grant review panel, Learning and Information Systems, National Science Foundation, 1997.

Academic Editorial Board, MIT Press, 1996-2001.

Section Editor for Language, M. S. Gazzaniga’s The Cognitive Neurosciences, MIT Press, 1995.

Founding Board Member, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 1994-present.

Executive Associate Editor, Cognition, 1985-2006.

Advisory Editorial Board, English Linguistics, 2003- .

Advisory Editorial Board, Intercultural Pragmatics, 2003- .

Editorial Board, Canadian Psychology, 2003-.

Editorial Board, Evolutionary Psychology, 2001-present.

Editorial Board, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2000-present.

Editorial Board, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum: An International Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, 2000-present.

Editorial Board, Evolution and Human Behavior, 1998-present.

Editorial Board, Cognitive Science, 1991-1996.

Editorial Board, Language Acquisition, 1990-2004; Advisory Board, 2004-present.

Editorial Board, Journal of Child Language, 1994- .

Editorial Board, International Journal of Bilingualism. 1996-present.

International Advisory Board, Mind & Society, 2002-present.

Editorial Advisory Board, The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, 2002-.

Electorate Nominating Committee, Section on Linguistics and Language Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994-1999.

Advisory Council, International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance, 1992- .

Scientific Consultant, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, 1979-present.

Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journals: American Anthropologist, American Psychologist, Applied Psycholinguistics, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Journal of Psychology, Child Development, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Current Biology, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Development and Psychopathology, Developmental Psychology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Human Nature, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Mental Imagery, Journal of Personality, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Language, Language Acquisition, Language and Cognitive Processes, Language Learning and Development, Lingua, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistics and Philosophy, Memory and Cognition, Mind and Language, Nature, Nature Genetics, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Neuron, Neuropsychologia, Parenting: Science and Practice, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Review, Psychological Science, Psycholoquy, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Science, Spatial Vision, Synthèse, Trends In Cognitive Science.

Ad Hoc Reviewer, Publishers: Blackwell, MIT Press, Cambridge University Press, Free Press, Harvard University Press, Harvester-Wheatsheaf, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Prentice-Hall, Princeton University Press, Reidel, Rowman & Littlefield, Scientific American Books, University of Arizona Press, University of California Press, University of Chicago Press, Yale University Press.

Ad Hoc Reviewer, Funding Agencies: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, John and Catherine Macarthur Foundation, Leverhulme Trust (UK), Medical Research Council (Canada), Medical Research Council (UK), National Institutes of Health, National Humanities Council, National Research Council (New Zealand), National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada), Russel Sage Foundation.

Consultant, Boston University Conference on Language Development, 1984-1997.

Books

Pinker, S. (1984) Language Learnability and Language Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Reprinted with new introduction, 1996.

Pinker, S. (Ed.). (1985) Visual Cognition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.

Pinker, S. & J. Mehler (Eds.) (1988). Connections and Symbols. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.

Pinker, S. (1989) Learnability and Cognition: The Acquisition of Argument Structure. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/Bradford Books.

Levin, B. & S. Pinker (Eds.) (1992) Lexical and Conceptual Semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Pinker, S. (1994) The Language Instinct. New York: HarperCollins; London: Penguin. Translations published in Arabic, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish. Translations pending in Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Czech, Danish, Hebrew, Slovenian. New edition with postscript and update, HarperCollins, 2007.

Pinker, S. (1997) How the Mind Works. New York: Norton; London: Penguin. Translations published in Dutch, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Hebrew, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish. Translations pending in Chinese (Taiwan), Korean, Romanian.

Pinker, S. (1999) Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language. New York: HarperCollins. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Translations published in German and Slovak. Translation pending in Korean.

Pinker, S. (2002) The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. New York: Viking; London: Penguin. Translations published in Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish. Translations pending in Chinese (China and Taiwan), Croatian, and Swedish.

Pinker, S. (Ed.). (2004) The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2004. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Pinker, S. (2005) Hotheads (Excerpt from How the Mind Works). London: Penguin Books.

Pinker, S. (2007) The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. New York: Viking; London: Penguin. Translation published in Spanish. Translations pending in Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese (Brazil).

Articles in Scholarly Journals

Millenson, J. R., Allen, R. B. & Pinker, S. (1977). Adjunctive drinking during variable and random-interval food reinforcement schedules. Animal Learning and Behavior, 5, 285-290.

Bregman, A. S. & Pinker, S. (1978). Auditory streaming and the building of timbre. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 32, 19-31.

Pinker, S. & Kosslyn, S. M. (1978). The representation and manipulation of three-dimensional space in mental images. Journal of Mental Imagery, 1, 69-84.

Pinker, S. (1979). Formal models of language learning. Cognition, 7, 217-283. Reprinted (1994) in N. Sheehy & T. Chapman (Eds.), Cognitive Science. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Pinker, S. & Birdsong, D. (1979). Speakers’ sensitivity to rules of frozen word order. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 497-508.

Kosslyn, S. M., Pinker, S., Smith, G. E., Shwartz, S. P. (1979). On the demystification of mental imagery. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1, 535-581. Reprinted (1981) in N. Block (Ed.), Imagery (pp. 131-150). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981.

Pinker, S. (1980). Mental imagery and the third dimension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 109, 254-371.

Pinker, S. & Finke, R. A. (1980). Emergent two-dimensional patterns in images rotated in depth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 6, 244-264.

Pinker, S. (1981). On the acquisition of grammatical morphemes. Journal of Child Language, 8, 477-484.

Finke, R. A. & Pinker, S. (1982). Spontaneous mental image scanning in mental extrapolation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 8, 142-147.

Finke, R. A. & Pinker, S. (1983). Directional scanning of remembered visual patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 9, 398-410.

Rosenblum, T. & Pinker, S. (1983). Word magic revisited: Monolingual and bilingual preschoolers’ understanding of the word-object relationship. Child Development, 54, 773-780. Reprinted (1987) in M. B. Franklin & S. S. Barten (Eds.), Child language: A book of readings. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pinker, S. (1984). Visual cognition: an introduction. Cognition, 18, 1-63.

Pinker, S. Choate, P., & Finke, R. A. (1984). Mental extrapolation in patterns constructed from memory. Memory and Cognition, 12, 207-218.

Downing, C. J. & Pinker, S. (1985). The spatial structure of visual attention. In M. Posner and O. Marin (Eds.), Attention and Performance XI: Mechanisms of attention and visual search. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stromswold, K., Pinker, S., and Kaplan, R. M. (1985) Cues for understanding the passive voice. Papers and Reports in Child Language1985.

Pinker, S., Lebeaux, D. S., & Frost, L. A. (1987) Productivity and constraints in the acquisition of the passive. Cognition, 26, 195-267.

Pinker, S. & Prince, A. (1988) On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition. Cognition, 28, 73-193. Reprinted in S. Pinker & J. Mehler (Eds.) (1988) Connections and symbols. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Prince, A. & Pinker, S. (1988) Rules and connections in human language. Trends in Neurosciences, 11, 195-202. Reprinted (1989) in R. G. Morris (Ed.), Parallel Distributed Processing: Implications for psychology and neurobiology. New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted (1993) in J. Higginbotham (Ed.), Language and cognition. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Reprinted (1999) in R. Cummins & D. D. Cummins (Eds.), Minds, brains, and computers. New York: Oxford University Press.

Prince, A., & Pinker, S. (1989) Wickelphone ambiguity. Cognition, 30, 189-190.

Tarr, M. J. & Pinker, S. (1989) Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 21, 233-282.

Gropen, J., Pinker, S., Hollander, M., Goldberg, R. & Wilson, R. (1989) The learnability and acquisition of the dative alternation in English. Language, 65, 203-257.

Finke, R. A., Pinker, S., & Farah, M. J. (1989) Reinterpreting visual patterns in mental imagery. Cognitive Science, 13, 51-78.

Tarr, M. J. & Pinker, S. (1990) When does human object recognition use a viewer-centered reference frame? Psychological Science, 1, 253-256.

Pinker, S. & Bloom, P. (1990) Natural language and natural selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 707-784. Reprinted in J. Barkow, L. Cosmides, & J. Tooby (Eds.) (1991), The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Finnish in Psykologia, 31(4), s1-s20, 31(5), s1-s23.

Gropen, J., Pinker, S, Hollander, M., & Goldberg, R. (1991) Syntax and semantics in the acquisition of locative verbs. Journal of Child Language, 18, 115-151.

Kim, J. J., Pinker, S., Prince, A, & Prasada, S. (1991) Why no mere mortal has ever flown out to center field. Cognitive Science, 15, 173-218.

Gropen, J., Pinker, S, Hollander, J., & Goldberg, R. (1991) Affectedness and direct objects: The role of lexical semantics in the acquisition of verb argument structure. Cognition, 41, 153-195. Reprinted (1992) in B. Levin & S. Pinker (Eds.), Lexical and conceptual semantics. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

Pinker, S. (1991) Rules of language. Science, 253, 530-535. Reprinted (1993) in P. Bloom (Ed.), Language acquisition: Core readings. London: Harvester-Wheatsheaf. Reprinted (1996) in H. Geirsson & M. Losonsky (Eds.), Readings in language and mind. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Reprinted in P. Thagard (Ed.), Mind readings: Introductory selections on cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Reprinted in A. Clark & J. Toribio (Eds.), Artificial intelligence and cognitive science: Conceptual issues. Hamden, CT: Garland. Reprinted (1999) in A. Slater & D. Muir (Eds.), The Blackwell reader in developmental psychology. Oxford: Blackwell. Reprinted (2002) in G. T. M. Altmann (Ed.), Psycholinguistics: Critical concepts. London: Routledge.

Tarr, M. & Pinker, S. (1991) Orientation-dependent mechanisms in shape recognition: Further issues. Psychological Science, 2, 207-209.

Marcus, G., Pinker, S., Ullman, M., Hollander, M., Rosen, T. J. & Xu, F. (1992) Overregularization in language acquisition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 57 (4, Serial No. 228).

Prasada, S. & Pinker, S. (1993) Generalizations of regular and irregular morphology. Language and Cognitive Processes, 8, 1-56.

Cave, K. R., Pinker, S., Giorgi, L., Thomas, C., Heller, L., Wolfe, J. M., & Lin, H. (1994) The representation of location in visual images. Cognitive Psychology, 26, 1-32.

Pinker, S. (1994) How could a child use verb syntax to learn verb semantics? Lingua, 92, 377-410. Reprinted in L. Gleitman and B. Landau (Eds.), (1994) The acquisition of the lexicon. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kim, J. J., Marcus, G. F., Pinker, S., Hollander, M., & Coppola, M. (1994) Sensitivity of children’s inflection to morphological structure. Journal of Child Language, 21, 173-209. Reprinted in K. Perera, G. Collis, & B. Richards (Eds.), Growing points in child language. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Pinker, S. (1994) On language (interview). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, 91-96. Reprinted (1997) as “Evolutionary Perspectives” in M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), Conversations in the cognitive neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Marcus, G. F., Brinkmann, U., Clahsen, H., Wiese, R., & Pinker, S. (1995) German inflection: The exception that proves the rule. Cognitive Psychology, 29, 189-256.

Xu, F. & Pinker, S. (1995) Weird past tense forms. Journal of Child Language, 22, 531-556.

Pinker, S., Prince, A. (1996), The nature of human concepts: evidence from an unusual source. Communication and Cognition, 29, 307-361. Reprinted (1999) in P. Van Loocke (Ed.), The nature, representation and evolution of concepts. London: Routledge. Reprinted (1999) in R. Jackendoff, P. Bloom, and K. Wynn (Eds.), Language, logic, and concepts: Essays in memory of John Macnamara. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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. Reprinted in Bánréti Zoltán (Ed.). Nyelvi Struktúrák és az Agy: Neurolingvisztikai Tanulmányok. Hungary.

Pinker, S. (1997) Words and rules in the human brain. Nature, 387, 547-548.

Pinker, S. (1998) Obituary: Roger Brown. Cognition, 66, 199-213.

Pinker, S. (1998) Words and rules. Lingua, 106, 219-242. Reprinted in A. Sorace, C. Heycock, and R. Shillcock (Eds.), Generative approaches to language acquisition. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Pinker, S. (1998) Out of the minds of babes. Science 283, 40-41.

Pinker, S. (1999) How the mind works. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 882, 119-127. Reprinted (2002) in Chesworth, A., Hill, S., Lipovsky, K., Snyder, E., & Chesworth, W. Darwin Day Collection 1: The Single Best Idea, Ever. Albequerque, NM: Tangled Bank Press. Reprinted in Danish in Kognition & Paedagogik, 2004.

Berent, I., Pinker, S., & Shimron, J. (1999) Default nominal inflection in Hebrew: Evidence for mental variables. Cognition 72, 1-44.

Pinker, S. (2000) Survival of the clearest. Nature, 401, 442-443.

Pinker, S. (2001) Talk of genetics and vice-versa. Nature, 413, 465-466.

Pinker, S. & Ullman, M. (2002) The past and future of the past tense. Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 456-463.

Pinker, S. & Ullman, M. (2002) Structure and combination, not gradedness, is the issue (Reply to McClelland and Patterson). Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, 472-474.

Berent, I., Pinker, S., & Shimron, J. (2002) The nature of regularity and irregularity: Evidence from Hebrew nominal inflection. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 31(5), 459-502

Pinker, S. & Ullman, M. (2003) Beyond one model per phenomenon. Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 108-109.

Pinker, S. (2004) Author’s response: Review symposium on “The Blank Slate.” Metascience, 13, 44-51.

Pinker, S. (2004) Clarifying the logical problem of language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 31, 949-953.

Pinker, S. (2004) Why nature and nurture won’t go away. Daedalus, 133, Fall, 5-17. Reprinted (2006) in Portuguese in INTERthesis, 3, 1. Reprinted (2007) in Danish in Kognition & Pedagogik, 64, 22-39.

Pinker, S. & Jackendoff, R. (2005) What’s special about the human language faculty? Cognition, 95, 201-236.

Pinker, S. (2005) So how does the mind work? Mind and Language, 20, 1-24.

Pinker, S. (2005) A reply to Jerry Fodor on how the mind works. Mind and Language, 20, 33-38.

Jackendoff, R. & Pinker, S. (2005) The nature of the language faculty and its implications for the evolution of language. Cognition, 97, 211-225.

Berent, I., Pinker, S., Tzelgov, J., Bibi, U., & Goldfarb, L. (2005) Computation of semantic number from morphological information. Journal of Memory and Language, 53, 342-358..

Pinker, S. (2006) Kidding ourselves. The Massachusetts Review. Reprinted in J. Rosner (Ed.), The Messy Self. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.

Pinker, S. (2006) The blank slate. The General Psychologist, 41, 1-8.

Sahin, N., Pinker, & Halgren, E.. (2006) Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca's Area: Evidence from fMRI. Cortex, 42, 540-562.

Pinker, S. (2007) Toward a consilient study of literature (review of J. Gottschall & D. Sloan Wilson, “The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative”). Philosophy and Literature, 31, 161-177.

Berent, I., Pinker, S., & Ghavami, G. (2007) The dislike of regular plurals in compounds: Phonological familiarity or morphological constraint? The Mental Lexicon, 2, 129-181.

Pinker, S. (2007) Language as an adaptation by natural selection. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 39, 431-438.

Pinker, S. (2007) The evolutionary social psychology of indirect speech. Intercultural Pragmatics, 4(4), 437-461.

Pinker, S., Nowak, M., A. & Lee, J. J. (2008). The logic of indirect speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 105(3), 833-838.

Senghas, A., Kim, J. J., & Pinker, S. (under review) The plurals-in-compounds effect.

Ganger, J., Pinker, S., Chawla, S. & Birk, J. (under review) A twin study of lexical and grammatical development: English past tense and past tense overregularization.

Huang, Y.-T. & Pinker, S. (under review) Lexical semantics and irregular inflection.

Book Chapters

Pinker, S. (1981). Comments on K. Wexler's "Some issues in the theory of learnability." In C.L. Baker and J. McCarthy (Eds.), The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition (pp. 53-63). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pinker, S. (1982). A theory of the acquisition of lexical interpretive grammars. In J. Bresnan (Ed.), The Mental Representation of Grammatical Relations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Pinker, S. & Kosslyn, S. M. (1983). Theories of mental imagery. In A. Sheikh (Ed.), Imagery: Current Theory, Research and Application (pp. 43-71). New York: Wiley.

Pinker, S. (1984). Language learnability and children's language: A multifaceted approach. In K. Nelson (Ed.), Children's Language, Vol. 5. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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