Abstract
How does language (spoken or written) impact thought? One useful way to approach this important but elusive question may be to consider language itself as a cognition-enhancing animal-built structure. To take this perspective is to view language as a kind of self-constructed cognitive niche. These self-constructed cognitive niches play, 1 suggest, three distinct but deeply interlocking roles in human thought and reason. Working together, these three interlocking routines radically transform the human mind, and mark a genuine discontinuity in the space of animal minds.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 255-268 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Theoria |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cognition-enhancing structure
- Cognitive niche
- Niche construction