Professor Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition at University of California, San Diego. She was born in Belarus and emigrated to the United States at age 12, where she learned to speak English as her fourth language. Lera’s research combines insights and methods from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and anthropology.

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