Mind and Language

CAS PS 750

Graduate Prerequisites: (CASPS525 OR CASPS545 OR CASPS546) or equivalent; or consent of instructor. - Seminar examines how language influences cognition. Surveys cognitive, developmental, psycholinguistic, and primate psychology literatures to explore whether cross-linguistic differences cause cross-cultural differences in cognition, and whether possession of a language faculty influences the nature of thought.

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