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It is of interest to determine how the presence of language in a neural network changes the cognitive capacity of that system. Disentangling cognition from language is always difficult. One approach is to establish a measurable level of cognitive skills in an organism and then see how it advances or retreats as a function of the independent introduction of language (Premack, 1982). Another is to study language-competent organisms that have fallen into disrepair and to look at changes in normal cognitive function (Goldstein, 1948; Luria, 1969).
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Gazzaniga, M.S., Smylie, C.S. (1984). What Does Language Do for a Right Hemisphere?. In: Gazzaniga, M.S. (eds) Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2177-2_10
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