Bilingual Minds

The bilingual adaptation: How minds accommodate experience.

According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep connections between linguistic and nonlinguistic processing, it would not be surprising to find that there are interactions between bilingualism and cognitive and brain processes. The present review uses the framework of...

Insect Minds For Human Minds

This chapter was originally published in the book Human Learning: Biology, Brain, and Neuroscience. The copy attached is provided by Elsevier for the author’s benefit and for the benefit of the author’s institution, for non-commercial research, and educational use. This includes without limitation use in instruction at your institution, distribution to specific colleagues, and providing a copy ...

Human Minds

Before proceeding, let me put to one side one familiar answer to my question. Most people, if asked what distinguishes humans from animals, would probably answer—“language”. Now, I certainly do not want to deny that our uniquely human facility with language plays some part in differentiating us intellectually from other animals. But it seems to me that, on its own, “language” does not add up to...

Mending Minds

Mending Minds. By Paul Winterton. Peter Davies, 1938, 8/6. This book is the result of an investigation undertaken on behalf of one of our great daily newspapers into the conditions obtaining in the Public Mental Hospitals of England and Wales and the subject of mental disease and its treatment in general. Whatever was the original intention of the investigation, the book actually constitutes pe...

Mending Minds