https://stultus.in/notes/tags/cognition/Recent content in Cognition on stultus notesHugoen-usHrishikesh Bhaskaran ♥Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/cardinal-direction-cognition/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/cardinal-direction-cognition/Speakers of languages that use north/south/east/west instead of left/right stay continuously oriented and arrange time relative to the landscape rather than the body.https://stultus.in/notes/colour-vocabulary-shapes-perception/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/colour-vocabulary-shapes-perception/Russian distinguishes light blue (goluboy) from dark blue (siniy) lexically. Russian speakers discriminate the two faster, and their brains show a categorical-shift response that English speakers’ brains do not.https://stultus.in/notes/event-framing-shapes-blame/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/event-framing-shapes-blame/How a sentence frames an event — agentive ‘he broke the vase’ vs non-agentive ’the vase broke’ — changes what witnesses remember and how much blame they assign, even when they watched the same video.https://stultus.in/notes/sources/lera-boroditsky-language-shapes-thought/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/sources/lera-boroditsky-language-shapes-thought/Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky surveys lab evidence that the structure of a language shapes how its speakers think — about space, time, number, colour, causation, and blame.https://stultus.in/notes/language-shapes-thought/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/language-shapes-thought/The structure of a language — its vocabulary, grammar, and obligatory distinctions — shapes how its speakers attend, remember, and reason. Linguistic relativity, with lab evidence.https://stultus.in/notes/number-words-enable-mathematics/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://stultus.in/notes/number-words-enable-mathematics/Exact counting is a linguistic trick — name each item with a number, the last name is the count. Without number words, exact-quantity tasks become unsolvable, and the entire downstream world of mathematics is closed off.