Language and the Mind
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p>Join an esteemed professor of psychology and neuroscience to dive into the fascinating relationship between the evolution of language and the mind.</p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Language in Mind
- 02: Language as a System
- 03: Eleven Linguistic Universals
- 04: Communication in the Animal Kingdom
- 05: Genes, Brains, and Evolution
- 06: How the Brain Created Language
- 07: Gesture and the Origins of Human Language
- 08: Development: A Mind under Construction
- 09: Specializing in Speech Sounds
- 10: Navigating a World of Words
- 11: Learning to Play the Game of Language
- 12: Mastering the Structure of Language
- 13: The Brain as a Window into the Mind
- 14: How the Brain Comprehends Language
- 15: How the Brain Produces Language
- 16: Dancing Brains: The Social Side of Language
- 17: How Writing Transformed the Mind
- 18: Sign Language: Language in Our Hands
- 19: Embodied Language: Mind in Body—Body in Mind
- 20: The Multilingual Mind
- 21: Does Language Shape Thought?
- 22: Does Culture Shape Language?
- 23: The Benefits of Bilingualism
- 24: How Language Makes Us Human
Taught by
Spencer Kelly
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