Lera Boroditsky
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Who is Lera Boroditsky?
Lera Boroditsky is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at UCSD and Editor in Chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She studies language and cognition, specifically focusing on interactions between language, cognition, and perception. She received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where her thesis advisor was Gordon Bower.
Her research combines insights and methods from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology. She has received several awards for her research, including an NSF CAREER award, the Marr Prize from the Cognitive Science Society, and being named a Searle Scholar.
Her work has provided new insights on the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think. She has discovered empirical examples of cross-linguistic differences in thought and perception that stem from syntactic or lexical differences between languages. This work had influences in the fields of psychology, philosophy, and linguistics in countering the notion that human cognition is largely universal and independent of language and culture.
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, Stanford University
Cognitive psychology
( - 2001) - Bachelor of Arts, Northwestern University
Cognitive science
( - 1996)
- Doctorate, Stanford University
- Employment
- Teaching Specified Class, Stanford University
(2006 - 2006) - Teaching Specified Class, Stanford University
(2005 - 2005) - Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Stanford Department of Psychology
(2004 - 2004) - Teaching Specified Class, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(2003 - 2003) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(2003 - 2004) - Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(2001 - 2004) - Teaching Specified Class, Stanford University
(2001 - 2001) - Teaching Specified Class, Stanford University
(2000 - 2000) - Teaching Specified Class, Stanford University
(1999 - 1999)
- Teaching Specified Class, Stanford University
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on July 23, 2013
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