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Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought

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The Pervasive Effect of Language on the Brain

The word time is the most frequent noun in English. The question of how do you come up with mental representations of abstract things has been haunting people for a really long time. Modern ideas about where concepts come from share some of these very properties.

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