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Aug 8, 2019 · In almost all the situations in which we find ourselves, language allows quick and effective expression, and provides a well-developed means of encoding and transmitting complex and subtle ideas.
- Language Development
We are exploring the origins of human development and what...
- Language Development
Aug 29, 2017 · We are exploring the origins of human development and what we call the three keys: emotions, language, and cognition. This month's Newsletter completed our investigation of language.
Jun 5, 2021 · Unlike other species, our human language capacity shapes our inner thought processes in ways that we can begin to study and understand. Inner speech differs from outer speech in being much more...
Sep 18, 2017 · We argue that language is a species- and domain-specific human cognitive capacity (Box 1) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. In essence, language is an internal computational mechanism that yields an unbounded...
- Angela D. Friederici, Noam Chomsky, Robert C. Berwick, Andrea Moro, Johan J. Bolhuis, Johan J. Bolhu...
- 2017
Oct 4, 2019 · Language plays a central role in the human brain, from how we process color to how we make moral judgments. It directs how we allocate visual attention, construe and remember events, categorize objects, encode smells and musical tones, stay oriented, reason about time, perform mental mathematics, make financial decisions, experience and express ...
- Lera Boroditsky
- 2019
Oct 30, 2015 · We discuss four interconnected issues that we believe have hindered investigations into how language may affect thinking. These have had a tendency to reappear in the debate concerning linguistic relativity over the past decades, despite numerous empirical findings.
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The development of language and cognition is key to human development. Language is an important means to communicate and code information; it is relevant to knowledge and concept acquisition, to memory performance and development, to problem solving, learning and self-regulation.