******* Language, Cognition, and Computation Lecture Series *******

 

Title                     The Ways that Language Meddles in Cognition

Speaker               Lera Boroditsky

Affiliation              BCS

Date                    Wednesday, October 8, 2003

Time                    4:15pm

Location              E15-070 (Bartos Theater)

 

Abstract     

 

In this talk I will highlight several different mechanisms through which

languages can participate in or shape cognition.  Languages can affect our

thinking by directing attention, encouraging comparisons, inviting

analogies, creating categories, acting as a crutch in memory, creating

associations through co-occurrence patterns, and so on.  I will show

empirical examples of each of these kinds of mechanisms in the

interactions between language and thought.

 

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