Kensy Cooperrider

Cognitive scientist

Kensy Cooperrider is a cognitive scientist who lives in Chicago. He has written for Scientific American Mind and JStor Daily, among other publications, and hosts the podcast Many Minds.

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Written by Kensy Cooperrider

Black-and-white photo of two girls and one boy in 1940s attire playing in a street with houses in the background.

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Language and linguistics

Hand to mouth

If language began with gestures around a campfire and secret signals on hunts, why did speech come to dominate communication?

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A group of people wearing traditional hats made of feathers, raising their hands in a ritual in a desert landscape.

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Cognition and intelligence

What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD?

Kensy Cooperrider

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Cognition and intelligence

Gesture talks

Across vast cultural divides people can understand one another through gesture. Does that make it a universal language?

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