Events 
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| Donnerstag, 03.12.2009 17:15 - 18:45 | |
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Daniel Casasanto (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) Body-Specificity of Language and Thought If the content of our minds depends in part on the structure of our bodies, then people with different types of bodies should think differently. I will review evidence that action verbs semantics and action imagery are differently lateralized in right- and left-handers’ brains, consistent with the way they perform actions with their dominant hands. Handedness also shapes how adults and children represent abstract ideas like goodness and intelligence, and has visible consequences for the way right- and left-handers communicate about these ideas. Changing how people use their right and left hands in the laboratory can cause them to think differently, suggesting that handedness is not merely correlated with cognitive differences. Rather, body-specific patterns of physical experience shape the way we think. Collquium "Language and Cognition" |
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