Born: 8 May 1976, Belarus
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Lera Boroditsky is a cognitive scientist and professor in the areas of language and cognition. She is an associate professor of cognitive science at the University of California San Diego and editor in chief of Frontiers in Cultural Psychology. She previously taught at MIT and at Stanford. Her research is on the relationships between mind, world and language (or how humans get so smart).
Boroditsky was named one of 25 visionaries changing the world by the Utne Reader, and is a Searle Scholar, a McDonnell scholar, recipient of an NSF Career award and an APA Distinguished Scientist lecturer.