{"id":378,"date":"2013-07-04T06:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/?p=378"},"modified":"2013-07-04T06:01:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T06:01:58","slug":"lost-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/lost-in-translation","title":{"rendered":"Lost in translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/media\/Documents\/short\/whorf.html\">Sapir-Whorf hypothesis<\/a> was formulated in the 1930s, regarding the nature of someone&#8217;s thoughts, and how they are dependent on the languages that this person knows. Do thoughts exist in the absence of language ? Yes. Conscious introspection, fMRI and other experiments can help us to find out more about the nature of our thought processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was formulated in the 1930s, regarding the nature of someone&#8217;s thoughts, and how they are dependent on the languages that this person knows. Do thoughts exist in the absence of language ? Yes. Conscious introspection, fMRI and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/lost-in-translation\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-narratology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lev.ch\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}