A Review of How the Mind Works

All this adds up to a fluent and entertaining reading experience. Partly, the research surveyed in this book can already be considered classical; for example, the extensive coverage of human stereo vision is mostly based on Marr's (1982) seminal account of the subject. However, the experimental psychology research that is reviewed in the book is relatively recent. Many of the ideas that Pinker presents have been in the air in evolutionary psychology; particularly influential and much cited in this book are the studies of Cosmides and Tooby (1994). Pinker's own contribution is to boldly combine all these ideas into a united theory of the mind and its origins.