Biography
Marcus became interested in the human mind as a teenager. In High School, after creating a program which translated Latin into English, he came to the conclusion that one cannot build programs within machines that understand language without understanding how people can understand language. This led to his progressive interest in cognitive psychology. He attended Hampshire College where he designed his own Major: Cognitive Science working on human reasoning. He continued on to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his advisor was the experimental psychologist Steven Pinker.
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