The cognitive functions of language

By Peter Carruthers. 2002

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Belief attribution despite verbal interference (2011, background): “Indeed, according to proponents of the role of language for belief attribution, it is specifically the propositional nature of these mental states that requires language (Carruthers, 2002; de Villiers & de Villiers, 2000).”
Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds (2008, unknown): “…the distinctiveness of human linguistic abilities – either by way of the " rewiring hypothesis " proposed by Dennett (1996), Mithen (1996), and Bermú dez (2003; 2005) or by Carruthers's appeal to the role of representations in logical form in domaingeneral , abstract thinking (Carruthers 2002).”
Why humans are (sometimes) less rational than other animals: Cognitive complexity and the axioms of rational choice (2013, background): “A unique aspect of Type 2 thinking in dualprocess theories (Evans & Stanovich, in press), these decoupling operations allow us to mark a belief as a hypothetical state of the world rather than a real one (e.g., Carruthers, 2002; Dienes & Perner, 1999; Evans & Over, 2004).”
Self-awareness deficits following loss of inner speech: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor's case study. (2009, unknown): “Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Consciousness and Cognition journal homepage: www.elsevier .com/locate /concog Short Communication Self-awareness deficits following loss of inner speech: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s case study q Alain Morin * Department of Psychology, Mount Royal College, 4825…”
Is problem solving dependent on language? (2005, background): “Periodically, the examiner switches the sorting criterion category (without alerting the examinee), and the examinee must learn the new sorting rule based on feedback.”
Extracommunicative functions of language: Verbal interference causes selective categorization impairments (2009, background): “Such extracommunicative conceptions of language (Carruthers, 2002; Clark, 1998; Dennett, 1994; Vygotsky, 1962) have argued that in addition to its value as a communicative tool, language makes possible or facilitates certain abilities outside of the domain of communication.”
Thinking in Words: Language as an Embodied Medium of Thought (2014, background): “In keeping with this, extant accounts of language-based thought generally view it as a medium of conscious deliberation (Carruthers, 2002; Dennett, 1996).”
The Centrality of Language in Human Cognition (2016, background): “One reason it is so important to understand the proper place for language in human cognition is that it remains our best bet for understanding this difference between human and nonhuman minds (Bermudez, 2007; Bickerton, 2014; Carruthers, 2002; A. Clark, 1998; Dennett, 1996; Spelke, 2003).”
Communicating without a functioning language system: implications for the role of language in mentalizing. (2011, unknown): “An important theoretical reason for positing this relationship is that the recursive capacity of human language allows for representations in which one proposition is embedded inside of another (e.g. [She believes that [he is on his way to work]]; Carruthers, 2002; Pyers, 2006).”
Is relational reasoning dependent on language? A voxel-based lesion symptom mapping study. (2010, background): “One possible explanation for this enhanced ability is that human language serves to bolster our capacity for reasoning and problem-solving (Baldo et al., 2005; Carruthers, 2002; Gentner, 2003; Goel & Dolan, 2004; Sokolov, 1972).”
The discursive nature of inner speech (2012, background): “For them, thinking occurs in some representational format (Carruthers, 2002; Fodor, 1983), this format being a mental code different from both inner speech and private conversation in a natural language code.”