![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() July 2016 - Present: Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology July 2020 - Present: Associate Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology Do we need language to think? Does language make humans special? Is it because we posses language that our mind is capable of sophisticated thinking? While these questions occupy much of my thoughts, I take great pleasure in some distractions, and in particular playing the piano and flying small planes. First, what does it mean to be conscious? How do we know that an individual is conscious, and how does this affect our understanding of brain function, after severe injury? The second question has to do with human thought. In particular, there are two fundamental questions that underlie my work. What is it that makes us uniquely human? The answer lies within the about 100 billion neurons that make up one of the most mysterious objects in the universe: the human brain. See my knightly academic lineage ( Neuro-tree) or my CV. Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) ![]()
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