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Visual Language Lab | >> Speaking in Pictures Speaking in Pictures Speaking in Pictures A Vision of Language Pictures are a fundamental aspect of how people communicate, and cave paintings are among the oldest records of human intelligence. Why then do most people feel they can’t draw, and why are pictures often considered as less important or complex than language? Are drawing and speaking really so different? For over twenty years, Neil Cohn has pioneered research around these questions within the fields of linguistics and cognitive neuroscience, and Speaking in Pictures presents this work f

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