Language has far more impact on our general cognitive abilities than we ever thought!

Bastien Boutonnet is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leiden and he studies how our brains are capable of the most complex human faculty: language. He thinks that this skill, which we often take for granted and consider an easy every-day activity, has far more impact on our general cognitive abilities than we ever thought. In fact, by being extremely curious and by breaking longstanding boundaries in his field, he has been able to find that language quite literally changes our minds and makes us the super-species that we are.

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