Meet the Ocean, Learn to Pack and How Language Shapes Us - 6.5.18
/HOW LANGUAGE SHAPES US
There are 196 countries in the world, but 7,000 distinct languages. And, as cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares in this fascinating TED Talk, language has a huge effect on our behavior. Learn from her research with an Aboriginal community in Australia (that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right for everything) and others whose language guides reasoning and actually shapes the way the brain functions.