NPTEL : NOC:Language, Culture and Cognition: An Introduction (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Bidisha Som


Lecture 1 - Nature of human thought - I

Lecture 2 - Brain and cognition, Seat of thought - II

Lecture 3 - Language, meaning, reality - III

Lecture 4 - Categorization

Lecture 5 - Categorization: (Continued...)

Lecture 6 - Frames: another way to understand categories

Lecture 7 - Metaphor

Lecture 8 - Metaphor and Metonymy

Lecture 9 - Image schema

Lecture 10 - Image schema (Continued...)

Lecture 11 - Language acquisition

Lecture 12 - Language acquisition (Continued...)

Lecture 13 - Language in the brain

Lecture 14 - Language in the brain (Continued...)

Lecture 15 - Language and attention

Lecture 16 - Language and visual attention

Lecture 17 - Attention in Sentence processing

Lecture 18 - Executive control/function and its facets

Lecture 19 - Role of executive function in language processing

Lecture 20 - Mental simulation and its relation with language; summary of the course