How Language Influences the Brain

Lara Boroditsky: Our languages and cultures teach us to pay attention to certain things. In Kuktai, or this language that I had a chance to work on, the way you even say hello is, which way are you going? And the answer should be something like north northwest in the far distance. People who speak languages like this stay oriented really, really well. They stay oriented better than we used to think humans could.