Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science.

Humans Language Linguistics Cognitive Science Cognition Brain
English bias cognitive science language and cognition linguistic diversity linguistic relativity

Journal

Trends in cognitive sciences
ISSN: 1879-307X
Titre abrégé: Trends Cogn Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9708669

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 2022
Historique:
received: 23 05 2022
revised: 19 09 2022
accepted: 22 09 2022
pubmed: 18 10 2022
medline: 15 11 2022
entrez: 17 10 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

English is the dominant language in the study of human cognition and behavior: the individuals studied by cognitive scientists, as well as most of the scientists themselves, are frequently English speakers. However, English differs from other languages in ways that have consequences for the whole of the cognitive sciences, reaching far beyond the study of language itself. Here, we review an emerging body of evidence that highlights how the particular characteristics of English and the linguistic habits of English speakers bias the field by both warping research programs (e.g., overemphasizing features and mechanisms present in English over others) and overgeneralizing observations from English speakers' behaviors, brains, and cognition to our entire species. We propose mitigating strategies that could help avoid some of these pitfalls.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.015 PMID: 36253221
pubmed: 36253221
pii: S1364-6613(22)00236-4
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.09.015
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1153-1170

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of interests No interests are declared.

Auteurs

Damián E Blasi (DE)

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Street, 02138 Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Pl. 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Human Relations Area Files, 755 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-1225, USA. Electronic address: dblasi@fas.harvard.edu.

Joseph Henrich (J)

Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 11 Divinity Street, 02138 Cambridge, MA, USA.

Evangelia Adamou (E)

Languages and Cultures of Oral Tradition lab, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), 7 Rue Guy Môquet, 94801 Villejuif, France.

David Kemmerer (D)

Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, 715 Clinic Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA; Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, 703 3rd Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

Asifa Majid (A)

Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK. Electronic address: asifa.majid@psy.ox.ac.uk.

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