
This is how language can shape your thoughts
Words work as a glue, allowing us to group together different experiences under one label. This is especially true for concepts that we cannot see or touch. But we still don’t really unde...
Born in Urbana-Champaign (Illinois), from Italian parents who were conducting research as graduate students in the USA, I spent the first two years of my life travelling across the USA and Caribbean islands with my family. When we moved across the pond, and relocated from Illinois to Switzerland, I started to socialize with German-speaking children, in a kindergarten in Zurich. I don’t recall any English or German from those times, but being exposed to such a rich and varied cultural and linguistic environment has definitely paved the path to my research interests in creativity and multilingualism.