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  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Linguistic relativity explores how language influences thought.
  • Predictive coding frameworks explain perception as hypothesis testing.
  • The role of 'priors' in perception is a key concept in predictive coding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reframe linguistic relativity through the lens of predictive coding.
  • To explore how language-generated priors influence sensory information processing.
  • To understand the societal function of language in shaping perception.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis integrating linguistic relativity and predictive coding theories.
  • Discussion of how conventionalized conceptual systems act as priors.
  • Argumentation based on the functional role of language in society.

Main Results:

  • Language establishes crucial priors that shape sensory perception.
  • These linguistic priors influence the interpretation and processing of sensory data.
  • Languages foster collective conceptual convergence, streamlining perception.

Conclusions:

  • Language acts as a powerful source of priors in the predictive coding framework.
  • Linguistic relativity can be understood as the impact of language-derived priors on perception.
  • Societies leverage language to create shared perceptual frameworks.