How we reason about human nature
The Blind Storyteller – A brief clip
Popular Press
Berent, I. (2020, July 26, 2020). Op-Ed: The real reason we’re afraid of robots OpEd, LA Times.
Berent, I. (2020, Sep, 27). How Decoding Dyslexia Can Help Decode the Mind. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-decoding-dyslexia-can-help-decode-the-mind/
Berent, I. (2020). Talk is cheap. Inference. https://inference-review.com/article/talk-is-cheap
Berent, I. (2020, December, 7). OpED: Learning as medication in a Zoom classroom. OpED, LA Times.
Berent, I. (2021, June, 2021). Reply to Aronoff et al. Inference, https://inference-review.com/letter/talk-isnt-so-cheap
Berent, I. (2021, July, 2021). Chomsky and beyond. Inference, https://inference-review.com/letter/chomsky-and-beyond.
Berent, I. (2021, December 14, 2021). Our innate ideas prevent us seeing what is innate in human nature. Psyche. https://psyche.co/ideas/our-innate-ideas-prevent-us-seeing-what-is-innate-in-human-nature
Berent, I. (2021, December 10, 2021). People Love the Brain for the Wrong Reasons. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-love-the-brain-for-the-wrong-reasons/
Podcasts
Philosophy Talks : the examined year: 2020 (interview, 12/7/2020)
The blind storyteller: Interview with Ricardo Lopes, The dissenter(5/1/2020).
Decoding dyslexia: Webinar for the London Dyslexia Foundation (7/22/2020)
Who we are at core: Interview with Maiken Scott for The pulse, WHYY (1/22/2021).
On innate knowledge and why we are blind to ourselves: Interview with Ilan Goodman for Nous, 1/28/2021)
Iris Berent author of The blind storyteller (BS 182): Interview with Ginger Campbell, Brain Science, 3/26/2021.
Thinking about thinking about yourself. Interview with Indre Viskontas , Inquiring minds(7/5/2021).
Is there a scientific basis to our Dualism? Does our brain lie to us? Interview with Roy Yozevitch (7/4/2021).
The blind storyteller: how we reason about human nature. Interview with Joseph Fridman, New books in neuroscience. 8/2/2021

How Decoding Dyslexia Can Help Decode the Mind. – Scientific American (9/27/2020)
Faulty Brain Connections in Dyslexia? – Interview in Science (12/6/2013)
Dyslexic brain hears fuzzy sounds – Live Science (9/20/2012)
Language
Talk is cheap – Inference (2020)
Linguistics, Skinner and Chomsky, Spoken and Written Language – Interview with Ricardo Lopes (1/25/2019)
Our brains are hardwired for language – ScienceDaily (4/17/2014)
Brain Appears Hardwired for Some Aspects of Language – PsychCenteral (8/8/2018)
Humans May be Born With Innate Ability to Recognize Which Sounds are Words – Nature World News (4/8/2014)
Examining the sound-patterns of world languages – News@Northeastern (7/17/2009)
“How do squishy baby faces learn language?” – InSolution Research Blog (3/26/2012)
“He said she said” – InSolution Research Blog (4/9/2012)