Cognitive science

Mind & brain, Neuroscience

The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for co...

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in ...

From: Joe Tovar

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Metaphor and Emotion - Language, Culture and Body in Human Feeling - Zoltan K...

Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductio...

From: urbanom

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