# Noam Chomsky **Domain:** Linguistics / Cognitive Science **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Verbal Behavior]], [[Cognitive Revolution]], [[Natural Language Processing]], [[Schedule and Loop]] ## Definition Noam Chomsky is a linguist whose critique of Skinner's Verbal Behavior became emblematic of the cognitive turn away from behaviorist explanations of language. ## Schedule–Loop Context The importance here is architectural: language learning appeared to require internal structure and generative capacity that stimulus-response schedules alone could not explain. ## Backlinks - [[Schedule and Loop]] - [[articles/Schedule and Loop|Schedule and Loop]] - [[Russia and Prussia Kybernetiks]]