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Overview

Lera Boroditsky is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Psychology, with a specific emphasis on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The body of work produced by Boroditsky focuses on several intersecting topics. These include:

  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Language, metaphor, and cognition
  • Multisensory perception and integration

Among recent publications, Boroditsky authored the paper titled Applied Cognition: Debate published in 2023 in the venue Language Mind Culture and Society. Another relevant paper, Effects of Language on Visual Perception, from 2020 appeared in Trends in Cognitive Sciences and was authored by a frequent collaborator, Gary Lupyan.

Frequent co-authors who have contributed to Boroditsky's research include:

  • Gary Lupyan
  • Rasha Abdel Rahman
  • Andy Clark
  • Neil Cohn
  • Adam Głaz

The most common venues for publishing Boroditsky's work are:

  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Language Mind Culture and Society

Best Publications

  • Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time

    Lera Boroditsky

  • Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors.

    Lera Boroditsky

  • Time in the mind: Using space to think about time

    Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto;Lera Boroditsky

  • Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning

    Paul H. Thibodeau;Lera Boroditsky

  • Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination

    Jonathan Winawer;Nathan Witthoft;Nathan Witthoft;Michael C. Frank;Lisa Wu

  • The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

    Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar

  • Individuation, relativity and early word learning

    Dedre Gentner;Lera Boroditsky

  • How language shapes thought.

    Lera Boroditsky

  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Mental Representations of Time: Evidence From an Implicit Nonlinguistic Task

    Orly Fuhrman;Lera Boroditsky

  • As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in processing space → time metaphors

    Dedre Gentner;Mutsumi Imai;Lera Boroditsky

  • Remembrances of Times East Absolute Spatial Representations of Time in an Australian Aboriginal Community

    Lera Boroditsky;Alice Gaby

  • Sex, syntax and semantics.

    Lera Boroditsky;Lauren A. Schmidt;Webb Phillips

  • Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently

    Lera Boroditsky;Orly Fuhrman;Kelly McCormick

  • Natural Language Metaphors Covertly Influence Reasoning

    Paul H. Thibodeau;Paul H. Thibodeau;Lera Boroditsky

  • On the Experiential Link Between Spatial and Temporal Language

    Teenie Matlock;Michael Ramscar;Lera Boroditsky

  • Space and Time in the Child's Mind: Evidence for a Cross-Dimensional Asymmetry

    Daniel Casasanto;Olga Fotakopoulou;Lera Boroditsky

  • How Linguistic and Cultural Forces Shape Conceptions of Time: English and Mandarin Time in 3D

    Orly Fuhrman;Kelly McCormick;Eva E. Chen;Heidi Jiang

  • Who dunnit? Cross-linguistic differences in eye-witness memory.

    Caitlin M. Fausey;Lera Boroditsky

  • How Linguistic Metaphor Scaffolds Reasoning

    Paul H. Thibodeau;Rose K. Hendricks;Lera Boroditsky

  • Subtle linguistic cues influence perceived blame and financial liability

    Caitlin M. Fausey;Lera Boroditsky

  • The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

    Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar;Michael C. Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Gary Lupyan
Gary Lupyan University of Wisconsin–Madison
Benjamin Bergen
Benjamin Bergen University of California, San Diego
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University
Rasha Abdel Rahman
Rasha Abdel Rahman Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University

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