Language and Thought | Asifa Majid

A presentation from 2022–2023 William Bentinck-Smith Fellow Asifa Majid

Humans are one species, and yet we speak 7,000 different, mutually unintelligible languages, each hosted in distinct cultural niches around the globe. How does this diversity of language, culture, and experience affect how people think and behave? During her fellowship year, Majid is writing a book to synthesize her wide-ranging empirical work to elucidate which aspects of cognition are fundamentally shared and which are language- or culture-specific.

Majid is a professor of cognitive science at the University of Oxford. Majid studies the relationship among language, culture, and mind. Find out more at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/peo....

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