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	Language and Thought
		Lera Boroditsky is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology at
		Lera agrees that language is sparse, and describes the opposite of the Sapir-Whorf position which claims that everyone notices the same things about the world, regardless of language.
		Lera discusses experimental evidence for and against the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis with callers who relate their own personal losses in translation and theories of language and thought.
	www.philosophytalk.org /pastShows/LanguageThought.html (638 words)

	Uppity-Negro.com: In Memoriam: I Heard You Twice the First Time
		Which is odd, since I remember looking up Lera Boroditsky's work, and she's quoted in the piece, and this bit at the end:
		Boroditsky is one of the researchers presenting her work at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference at the Hynes Veterans Convention Center this week.
		Not one of Professor Boroditsky's courses -- she does have several offered at MIT Open Courseware, including (as a co-instructor) one on Language and Thought -- but I thought it looked interesting.
	www.uppity-negro.com /archives/001636.html (1310 words)

	Boston.com / News / Science / She explores the world of language and thought
		For Boroditsky, such cross-lingual conundrums are more than just amusing anecdotes, they offer potentially profound insights into the workings of the mind.
		Boroditsky argues that each individual effect might be small, but the cumulative effects could be awesome.
		For instance, in English, you can't say a girl "eat a cookie." Either she is eating, just ate, will eat, etc. Scientists in Boroditsky's lab showed people pictures of a man in various stages of kicking a ball, and asked them to describe the photo.
	www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2003/11/18/she_explores_the_world_of_language_and_thought?mode=PF (951 words)

	Tentacle Session #12: Lera Boroditsky
		Well, as Lera herself put it: "a low-tech audiovisual disaster, trampling over art, perception, illusion, and other things i know close to nothing about." Heh, heh, believe me, folks, she's being REALLY modest.
		Lera will challenge how you look at science, art, and just about everything else.
		Check out her scientific credentials, tons of 'em and if you still aren't happy w/ her qualifications, then, by all means, complain.
	sessions.laughingsquid.org /lera.html (292 words)

	Curriculum Vitaé - Lera Boroditsky
		Boroditsky, L. & Ramscar, M. "First, we assume a spherical cow..." A commentary on Tenenbaum & Griffiths "Generalization, Similarity, and Bayesian Inference".
		Boroditsky, L. The role of comparison in the development of knowledge.
		Boroditsky, L. Long-term and on-line consequences of language use: Cross-linguistic differences in tense, aspect, and the representation of actions.
	www-psych.stanford.edu /~lera/vitae.html (1994 words)

	Symbolic Systems Forum - Lera Boroditsky, Psychology Department, "Relationships Between Language and Thought" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BIO: Lera Boroditsky earned a BA with Honors in Cognitive Science from Northwestern University in 1996 and a Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology from Stanford University in 2001.
		Boroditsky's main interests have concerned acquisition of language and meaning, metaphoric structuring, conceptual development and change, and cross-linguistic similarities and differences in thought.
		Her research has particularly addressed the ongoing debate in the field concerning linguistic relativity: the hypothesis that the langauges we speak may shape the way we think.
	events.stanford.edu /events/37/3751 (211 words)

	sfbg.com \| Jan. 19, 2000 \| Dilettante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Others of you are students of hers." little lera boroditsky (girl scientist), a confident, diminutive, soft-spoken pixie in a smart brown suit, takes the helm, hands firmly planted on an overhead projector pilfered from the Stanford psychology department.
		boroditsky then projects several other headache-inducing images that prove our eyes and brain filter out what they believe to be extraneous information.
		So, boroditsky concludes at the end of a delightful but brain-draining Session, humans, though we're stuck here together, can't really concur on anything, don't really see much, and nothing is as it seems.
	www.sfbg.com /Dilettante/55.html (852 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		What researchers are probing now is whether each language, with its unique set of concepts and distinctions and vocabulary, causes people to experience the world differently - a feeling shared by many who have learned another language, but which has proven exceptionally difficult for scientists to document.
		Boroditsky recruited two groups of volunteers, native German speakers and native Spanish speakers, who spoke English well.
		But Boroditsky said that she is beginning to uncover "interesting differences" in ongoing research into how speakers of Turkish and other languages remember events.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art059.txt (876 words)

	Scientific American/Bright Horizons Cruise -- Brochure
		Speaker: Lera Boroditsky, Ph.D. From Aristotle's day to ours, imagery and the ability to imagine have been key components in theories of mind.
		Boroditsky will bring us up to date on aspects of "imagination" such as attention, recall, formation of new images, and the neural structures involved.
		Boroditsky and colleagues have uncovered many fascinating cross-linguistic differences in thought and speech that shape the way we attend to, represent, and remember our experiences in the world.
	www.geekcruises.com /ol_brochure_b/sa01_ol_brochure.html (3011 words)

	Scientific American: A Way with Words
		Studying individuals who speak only one language can still leave research open to criticism, says Lera Boroditsky of MIT, a Whorf sympathizer.
		Boroditsky and a colleague asked the study subjects to describe, in English, objects that were grammatically masculine or feminine in their native tongues.
		Indicating that it wasn't necessarily the Mandarin convention of writing vertically that caused the effect, English speakers trained briefly to talk about time using vertical metaphors showed more Mandarin-like results on the same tests.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00009A6B-B402-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF (1563 words)

	Mixing Memory: Temporal Attitudes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lera Boroditsky, who's now at Stanford, has done some really interesting research looking at the way our concepts of space structure our concepts of time
		The ambiguous sentence Boroditsky uses in her studies is, "Next Wednesday's meeting has been moved forward two days." Ordinarily, about half of the people who read this interpret it as meaning that the meeting has been moved to Monday, while the other have read it as meaning the meeting has been moved to Friday.
		She also has done some really, really cool research looking at the way we conceptualize number in terms of space, but I can't find a reference on her website, so she might not have published it yet.
	mixingmemory.blogspot.com /2004/10/temporal-attitudes.html (845 words)

	Harry E. Foundalis - 2002 - Evolution of Gender in Indo-European Languages
		Abstract In a recent paper, Lera Boroditsky and Lauren A. Schmidt (2000) examined the degree to which the linguistic category of grammatical gender of nouns influences people's perception of the cognitive category of biological gender, or sex.
		Their conclusion was that English speakers' intuitions about the gender of certain nouns (animals) correlate with the gender assigned to those nouns in languages such as German and Spanish.
		In this study I sought to reproduce Boroditsky and Schmidt's results in order to show that the interpretation they supplied is unwarranted, and that the authors conflate the concepts of biological gender (sex) and ``formal gender'', which is employed by most IndoEuropean languages (as opposed to ``natural gender'', in English).
	edfu.lis.uiuc.edu /~amag/langev/paper/foundalis02evolutionOf.html (359 words)

	LINGUIST List 15.163: New: Gil & Boroditsky: Indonesian Linguistics
		WORD, WORDS, WORDS A project that Dr Gil is just beginning in Indonesia, in collaboration with Lera Boroditsky, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is examining correlations between the way concepts are expressed in languages and how native speakers of these languages think.
		If that does prove to be the case, says Dr Gil, their remains the thorny question of whether it is the differences in language of the two groups that influences their conception of time, or vice versa.
		Dr Boroditsky and Dr Gil are not intending to restrict their study to ideas about time.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/15/15-163.html (1815 words)

	Neuroscience Wiki: WhorfianHypothesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Of course, this may also be interpreted as evidence that numerical abilities must just be learned as a child, rather than as an argument for linguistic connections.
		Boroditsky, 2000: Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors
		Lera Boroditsky, Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors, Cognition, Volume 75, Issue 1, 14 April 2000, Pages 1-28.
	www.ifi.unizh.ch /~andel/neurowiki/nw.cgi/WhorfianHypothesis (163 words)

	Do languages help mold the way we think? - Asylum Forums
		This cognitive difference appeared after the children had acquired language, suggesting that their thought patterns diverged as they acclimated to their way of speaking.
		Studying individuals who speak only one language can still leave research open to criticism, says Lera Boroditsky of MIT, a Whorf sympathizer.
		Boroditsky and a colleague asked the study subjects to describe, in English, objects that were grammatically masculine or feminine in their native tongues.
	www.asylumnation.com /asylum/_r/showthread/threadid_23262/index.html (1588 words)

	World view
		In the 1990's new research has given further support for the linguistic relativity theory, in the works of Stephen Levinson and his team at the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
		The theory has also gained attention through the works of Lera Boroditsky at the MIT.
		http://cognation.stanford.edu/press/newscientist.pdf (Essay on current research in linguistic relativity by Lera Boroditsky in the New Scientist)
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/w/wo/world_view.html (674 words)

	How Other Languages Think
		Sure, says Lera Boroditsky, differences in language can effect how you think.
		How much language effects thought is turning into a hot debate, and although Steven Pinker doesn't agree with Boroditsky's theories, he describes her as "a force to be reconed with".
		Scientists in Boroditsky's lab showed people pictures of a man in various stages of kicking a ball, and asked them to describe the photo.
	cognews.com /1069310017/index_html (341 words)

	World view (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the 1990's new research has given further support for the linguistic relativity theory, in the works of Stephen Levinson and his team at the Max Planck institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen, The Netherlands [1].
		The 'construction of integrating worldviews' begins from fragments of worldviews offered to us by the different scientific disciplines and the various systems of knowledge.
		In the language of the Third Reich, Weltanschauungen came to designate the instinctive understanding of complex geo-political problems by the Nazis, which allowed them to openly begin invasions, twist facts or violate Human Rights, in the name of a higher ideal and in accordance to their theory of the world.
	hallencyclopedia.com /World_view (836 words)

	Pleasing names make faces sexier - 11 August 2004 - New Scientist
		However, having a man’s name — such as Bob — had no negative effect on a woman’s attractiveness to website viewers.
		It may be that some words with these sounds have created a persistent association, she says.
		And while the effects were robust, an attractive name cannot completely compensate for a face that is more frog than prince.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn6271&lpos=home1 (447 words)

	Linguistics and Thinking -- Sunday, January 11, 2004
		The Economist writes that "languages may be more different from each other than is currently supposed.
		A project that Dr David Gil, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, is just beginning in Indonesia, in collaboration with Lera Boroditsky, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is examining correlations between the way concepts are expressed in languages and how native speakers of these languages think.
		This is a test of a hypothesis first made by Benjamin Lee Whorf, an early 20th-century American linguist, that the structure of language affects the way people think.
	www.emergic.org /archives/indi/007891.php (439 words)

	Untitled Document
		How do these same components influence perceptual and conceptual processes?
		Lera Boroditsky, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
		12:00-12:30 - Lera Boroditsky, "From Perception to Language and Back Again
	cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu /rgoldsto/languageperception.html (287 words)

	Todd Mundt
		Todd talks with Lera Boroditsky, an assistant professor at MIT, about her research comparing the differences in thought patterns based on language.
		Her findings suggest that small variations in languages can alter the way its speakers perceive the world around them.
		He explains that children experience less discomfort when they are forewarned about the amount of pain a procedure may cause.
	www.toddshow.org /log/dailylistings/03202002.asp (186 words)

	Journal of Vision - Language, Categorization, and Visual Search, by Winawer, Rosenholtz, Witthoft, & Boroditsky
		These results suggest first, that semantic information about simple visual stimuli can affect visual tasks, and second, that the interaction between category and search depends on the on-line access to language, at least for newly learned categories.
		Supported by NSF and Searle Scholars grants to Lera Boroditsky.
		Winawer, J. A., Rosenholtz, R., Witthoft, N., and Boroditsky, L. Language, Categorization, and Visual Search [Abstract].
	www.journalofvision.com /4/8/693 (284 words)

	GirlHacker's Random Log
		" Lera Boroditsky's research (abstract here) has shown that the different representations of time in the two languages result in a difference in how the speakers think about time.
		The study of language's effect on cognition has been controversial in the past as Benjamin Lee Whorf's findings from the Hopi Indians were used for racist theories which supposed that speakers of primitive languages were incapable of abstract thought.
		Footnote: as I was delving into Boroditsky's background, I came across the honors thesis of someone I know who has worked with her.
	www.girlhacker.com /2002_02_01_archive.html (3583 words)

	Comparison and the Development of Knowledge (ResearchIndex)
		Lera Boroditsky (leramit.edu) NE20-456, MIT, 77 Mass Ave Cambridge, MA 02139...
		Results show that comparing similar objects makes them appear more similar, while comparing dissimilar objects makes them appear less similar.
		An Instance-based Model of the Effect of Previous..
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /545707.html (102 words)

	dunbar65
		This kind of mental rehearsal is actually quite a complex task and involves bringing into play a number of quite different
		Lera Boroditsky has in fact recently suggested that we use it to develop a sense of time off the back of a sense of space.
		Time, after all, is something that we can only imagine: we cannot touch or sense it directly.
	www.uboeschenstein.ch /texte/dunbar65.html (3144 words)

	Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Whorf versus continuity theorists: bringing data to bear on the debate Susan Carey; 8.
		Individuation, relativity, and early word learning Dedre Gentner and Lera Boroditsky; 9.
		Grammatical categories and the development of classification preferences: a comparative approach John Lucy and Suzanne Gaskins; 10.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521596599&print=y (537 words)

	Different shades of perception
		The current study is partly motivated by the cross-cultural research.
		But as MIT psychologist Lera Boroditsky, PhD, points out, unlike the cross-cultural studies, it does not directly address the linguistic relativity hypothesis.
		It does not, for instance, provide evidence that learning a new linguistic distinction can produce a new categorical perception effect.
	www.apa.org /monitor/dec02/perception.html (1156 words)

	cogling Archives: Re: Space as a metaphor of Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		> The linguistic evidence all seems to converge with Lera Boroditsky's
		That link doesn't resolve, but a quick Google query gives this as her homepage:
		Boroditsky, L. Metaphoric Structuring: Understanding time through spatial metaphors.
	hci.ucsd.edu /cogling/1650.html (148 words)

	cogling Archives: Re: Piraha number: some questions for Peter G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Previous message: Lera Boroditsky: "Piraha number: some questions for Peter Gordon (or others who know"
		Maybe in reply to: Lera Boroditsky: "Piraha number: some questions for Peter Gordon (or others who know"
		On Monday, September 13, 2004, at 04:18 AM, Lera Boroditsky wrote:
	hci.ucsd.edu /cogling/3384.html (323 words)

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