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Report on the Santa Fe Institute Meeting on Early Childhood Intervention and Continued Dicussion from the Krasnow Monday Meeting "Perspectives on Cognitive Science"

Harold Morowitz (Director, Krasnow Inst.) and open discussion Monday, November 13, 1995

In the first half of this session, Harold Morowitz will report on the recent Santa Fe meeting on Early Childhood Intervention with special reference to the work of Paula Tallal on "Temporal Information Processing in the Nervous System--Special Reference to Dyslexia and Dysphasia." The background work for Tallal's topic can be found in the following article. Tallal, Paula; Steve Miller and Roslyn Holly Fitch. "Neurobiological Basis of Speech: A Case for the Preeminence of Temporal Processing," The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, v 682, June 14, 1993.

The second half of the session will be a continuation of our 10-30-95 discussion of bits, action potentials, and symbols.

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