Language & Mind Lab

Popular Press

1. Berent, I. (2020, July 26, 2020). Op-Ed: The real reason we’re afraid of robots OpEd, LA Times.
2. Berent, I. (2020, Sep, 27). How Decoding Dyslexia Can Help Decode the Mind. Scientific American.
3. Berent, I. (2020). Talk is cheap. Inference. https://inference-review.com/article/talk-is-cheap
4. Berent, I. (2020, December, 7). OpED: Learning as meditation in a Zoom classroom. OpED, LA Times.
5. Berent, I. (2021, June, 2021). Reply to Aronoff et al. Inference, 6. https://inference-review.com/letter/talk-isnt-so-cheap
6. Berent, I. (2021, July, 2021). Chomsky and beyond. Inference, 6. https://inference-review.com/letter/chomsky-and-beyond.
7. Berent, I. (2021, December 14, 2021). Our innate ideas prevent us seeing what is innate in human nature. Psyche. https://psyche.co/ideas/our-innate-ideas-prevent-us-seeing-what-is-innate-in-human-nature
8. Berent, I. (2021, December 10, 2021). People Love the Brain for the Wrong Reasons. Scientific American.
9. Berent, I. (2022, Sep 18, 2022). Op-ED: How we should research on human nature?, LA Times.  https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-18/human-nature-scientific-reseach-restrictions-genetics-politics-culture-harm
10. Berent, I (2022, Dec 4^th). Op-Ed: Believe in ghost stories and visits from the dead? It’s more natural than you think, LA Times. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-04/op-ed-believe-in-ghosts
11. Berent, I. (2023, May 13^th). Mind or Body? Men and Women See It Differently. Psychology today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/looking-within/202305/mind-or-body-men-and-women-see-it-differently
12. Berent, I. (2023, May 18th). ¿Mente o cuerpo? Hombres y mujeres lo ven de forma distinta; Psychology today en Español. https://www.psychologytoday.com/ar/blog/mente-o-cuerpo-hombres-y-mujeres-lo-ven-de-forma-distinta
13. Berent, I. How to tell a Dualist. CogSci Unpacked.
14. Berent, I. (December 18, 2023). The harder problem of consciousness: us. Psychology today.

Podcasts

1. Philosophy Talk : the examined year: 2020 (interview, 12/7/2020)
2. The blind storyteller: Interview with Ricardo Lopes, The dissenter (5/1/2020).
3. Decoding dyslexia: Webinar for the London Dyslexia Foundation (7/22/2020)
4. Who we are at core: Interview with Maiken Scott for The pulse, WHYY (1/22/2021).
5. On innate knowledge and why we are blind to ourselves: Interview with Ilan Goodman for Nous, 1/28/2021)
6. Iris Berent author of The blind storyteller (BS 182): Interview with Ginger Campbell, Brain Science, 3/26/2021.
7. Thinking about thinking about yourself. Interview with Indre Viskontas , Inquiring minds (7/5/2021).
8. Is there a scientific basis to our Dualism? Does our brain lie to us? Interview with Roy Yozevitch (7/4/2021).
9. The blind storyteller: how we reason about human nature. Interview with Joseph Fridman, New books in neuroscience. 8/2/2021
10. Nature & Nurture #60: Dr. Iris Berent – How We Reason About Human Nature. Interview with Adam Omary. (June 15, 2022)
11. Iris Berent on language, innate knowledge, human nature In A. Khan (Ed.), Thing in itself w/ Ashar Khan (June 11, 2022)
12. What Are Babies Born Knowing? Innate Beliefs in the Soul and Afterlife (Iris Berent). In The Michael Shermer Show # 308 (November 29, 2022).

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