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The Human Intelligence Enterprise: Spring 2009

FORSAN ET HAEC OLIM MEMINISSE IUVABIT

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Sources of flexibility in human cognition: dual-task studies of space and language, by Linda Hermer-Vazquez, Elizabeth Spelke, and Alla S. Katsnelson.

WRT 1.5 hours

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

This year's winner of the Rumelhart prize is Sue Carey.

A year from now, Winston is asked to support the nomination of her collegue, Elizabeth Spelke. He asks you to prepare a draft in his behalf. You expect you will end up writing four or five pages, but you decide to start with a complete one page draft based on her work on space and languge, which you will show to Winston before reading other papers and finishing your letter.

Supply the one page draft.