Editing Visual thinking (section)

===Linguistics===
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A common assumption is that people think in language, and that language and thought influence each other.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Fromkin |first1=Victoria |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0BhzqFratIAC |title=An Introduction to Language |last2=Rodman |first2=Robert |last3=Hyams |first3=Nina |date=2010-01-01 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-4282-6392-5 |language=en}}</ref> [[Linguistics]] studies how language is used and acquired.

The strong version of the [[Linguistic relativity|Sapir–Whorf hypothesis]] in [[linguistics]] states that language determines thought, and that linguistic categories alone limit and determine cognitive categories. Although Whorf himself framed linguistic relativity in terms of "habits of mind" rather than determinism, the revolutionary nature of his hypothesis was met with much misinterpretation and criticism. In 1969, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay rejected the strong hypothesis using a [[Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution|color terminology study]].{{sfn|Berlin|1969}}

[[Steven Pinker]] notes that we are not born with language, so that it is not likely that we are engineered to think in words alone.<ref>Steven Pinker, ''The Language Instinct''</ref>