We want to know as curious people how children learn language, what we find attractive or unattractive, and what's the basis for mental illness.

人类的好奇心驱使我们去探索,儿童如何学习语言,什么会被感知为迷人或丑陋,心理疾病的成因又是什么

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You can see it in his perceptions. You can see it in his language.

从他的语言和心理感知中能看出这一点。

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And this is the puzzle faced by the psychology and cognitive science of language.

这也是心理学和语言认知学,所面临的难题

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And the dominant problems concern consist of a lack of social connectedness, problems with language, problems dealing with people, and more generally, a problem of what the psychologist, Simon Baron-Cohen has described as "mind blindness."

主要症状包括缺乏社会联系,语言障碍,社交障碍,总而言之,会产生一种心理学家西蒙·伯龙·科恩,称之为"精神性盲"的症状

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