CARTA: Imagination and Human Origins: Lera Boroditsky - Building Complex Knowledge with Language and Imagination
Jul 24, 2018•20 min
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Episode description
This symposium explores the evolutionary origins of human imagination, its impact on the sciences and arts, the consequences of imagination impairment, and the fundamental genetic and neurological basis of human imagination. The ability to cognitively transcend the physical is one of the very hallmarks of human intelligence. Lera Boroditsky, UC San Diego. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 33812]
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