EDFL 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noam Chomsky, Information Processing Theory, Cognitive Revolution

• School: UCM
• Department: Educational Foundations and Literacy
• Course: EDFL 2240
• Professor: Alexander Pagnani

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