http://mindhacks.com/2005/02/16/abstract-structure-need-not-be-based-on-language/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2005/02/16/abstract-structure-need-not-be-based-on-language/#comment-8545 Sun, 13 Mar 2005 15:21:00 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2005/02/16/abstract-structure-need-not-be-based-on-language/#comment-8545 It’s always seemed to me that the people I knew who were good at math were good at nothing else. The only thing in English or language classes they ever got was grammar, which I usually could never fathom, so it’s always seemed to me that grammar was some alien thing invented by people with math brains so they could speak.
When speaking people don’t worry about ‘now I must conjugate the verb’, but people who are good at math do. When you are speaking with them they will often pause and worry about how to say something, often the simplest thing.
They’re working it out through the grammar.

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