Dr. Terrence Deacon is professor of Biological Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of California-Berkeley. His research combines human evolutionary biology and neuroscience, with the aim of investigating the evolution of human cognition. His work extends from laboratory-based cellular-molecular neurobiology to the study of semiotic processes underlying animal and human communication, especially language. He is the author of The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain.
The following interview with Dr. Terrence Deacon was conducted at the studios of KCSM (PBS) Television in San Mateo, California on September 5, 2003. About his book, The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain, David Pilbeam, professor of anthropology at Harvard University said: "This superb and innovative look at the evolution of language could only have been written by one person . . . Terrence Deacon. An extraordinary achievement!" Dr. Deacon is a renowned neuroscientist whose work on the evolution of language and the brain provides an important backdrop for understanding the neurological challenges involved in learning to read. Our conversation with Dr. Deacon stretches from the origins of language and consciousness to the problems of automatizing the symbolic processing necessary for reading.
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Thank you Cori Stennett