Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Small But Mighty. Languages are complex and our words are powerful. Cognative scientist Lera Boroditsky discusses how even small variations in language may mean ...

For cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky, the fact the human brain can perceive other people's odd collection of noises as things called "words," which somehow possess meaning, is baffling in its own ...

Does language shape the way we think? For many linguists, the answer is no. From the 1970s through the 1990s, the accepted theory was that all languages have a common underlying structure, which means ...

Lera Boroditsky once did a simple experiment: She asked people to close their eyes and point southeast. A room of distinguished professors in the U.S. pointed in almost every possible direction, ...

A researcher at Stanford University has written a fascinating essay, “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?,” in the Edge about her examination of how people who speak different native ...

Languages are complex and our words are powerful. Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky discusses how even small variations in language may mean big... Does language shape how we think? Part 2 of the ...