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