[In Context] The structure of thought

What are thoughts? How are thought and language related? These are two of the most fundamental questions regarding the study of the mind, but they have received comparatively little attention compared with questions of consciousness, vision, or memory. However, the field of cognitive linguistics has revealed deeper structures within language that potentially reveal the underlying mechanisms of human thought, and in The Neural Mind, George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan present a theory that links these linguistic structures to underlying mechanisms of thought in a way that is closely based on our understanding of the brain.