Download or read book Verbal Minds written by Antoni Gomila and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language has most consistently been chosen as the key to understanding the human mind and to providing the building blocks necessary for achieving other specificities in human cognition: abstract/propositional thought, recursivity, decoupling of current situation, creativity, and conscious control. It is not so clear how language influences human cognition. This book discusses research regarding verbal ability and cognition.