Harvard University Psychologist Steven Pinker discusses the relationship between language and human nature. What do the names we give things — and even the prepositions and tenses we use — say about the way our minds work? This lecture, which took place at the New York Academy of Sciences, is based on Pinker’s new book, THE STUFF OF THOUGHT.

Tags: brain, human nature, language, linguistics, Psychology, science & nature, Steven Pinker