Language and the Mind By: Spencer D Kelly

Author: Spencer D. Kelly, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Spencer D. Kelly

What is our species’ greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens – one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed us, as well. Research has shown that whether we’re sighted or blind, hearing or deaf, one or one hundred years old, communication through language is a fundamental part of what it means to be human. 

In 24 fascinating lectures, Dr. Spencer Kelly, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Colgate University, takes us on a fascinating journey into so many aspects of life we take for granted every day: our ability to remember the past and imagine a future, our use of hand gestures and facial expressions in communication, our capacity for storytelling, and so much more. You will explore fascinating questions, such as the origin of the human mind, what makes our communication so much different than other animals, whether or not language itself influences thought, and how babies learn their native language without direct teaching. You will follow along, finding yourself intrigued, surprised, and enthralled by it all because…you possess the power of language.

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21M	TGC1623 S01E01 Language in Mind.mp3
19M	TGC1623 S01E02 Language as a System.mp3
22M	TGC1623 S01E03 Eleven Linguistic Universals.mp3
22M	TGC1623 S01E04 Communication in the Animal Kingdom.mp3
23M	TGC1623 S01E05 Genes, Brains, and Evolution.mp3
23M	TGC1623 S01E06 How the Brain Created Language.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E07 Gesture and the Origins of Human Language.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E08 Development - A Mind under Construction.mp3
20M	TGC1623 S01E09 Specializing in Speech Sounds.mp3
19M	TGC1623 S01E10 Navigating a World of Words.mp3
20M	TGC1623 S01E11 Learning to Play the Game of Language.mp3
20M	TGC1623 S01E12 Mastering the Structure of Language.mp3
20M	TGC1623 S01E13 The Brain as a Window into the Mind.mp3
22M	TGC1623 S01E14 How the Brain Comprehends Language.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E15 How the Brain Produces Language.mp3
22M	TGC1623 S01E16 Dancing Brains - The Social Side of Language.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E17 How Writing Transformed the Mind.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E18 Sign Language - Language in Our Hands.mp3
22M	TGC1623 S01E19 Embodied Language - Mind in Body - Body in Mind.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E20 The Multilingual Mind.mp3
20M	TGC1623 S01E21 Does Language Shape Thought^.mp3
21M	TGC1623 S01E22 Does Culture Shape Language^.mp3
22M	TGC1623 S01E23 The Benefits of Bilingualism.mp3
23M	TGC1623 S01E24 How Language Makes Us Human.mp3
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