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The article’s summary: Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has
by PeterWhittaker 5y ago
The article’s summary:
Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has now shown that both skills rely on the same neurological resources, which are located in the same brain region. Furthermore, motor training using a tool improves our ability to understand the syntax of complex sentences and -- vice-versa -- syntactic training improves our proficiency in using tools.
I find both parts fascinating but especially the second, that improving proficiency in understanding complex sentences improves tool mastery.
Sounds like we need we word problems in shop and shop in language class.
- hyperpallium2 5y agoA book on mathematical proof made the point that algebraic operators are similar to syntactic compound terms in natural language, like and and or. There's even a distributive property. Although algebra was kinda late to the party, the roots it leverages are not. Manipulating natural language and algebraic expressions have both always felt mechanical to me. (in the wonderful and joyful engineering sense, of being fun)