The group discusses the implications of language for human mental life, including higher cognitive processes, interpersonal communication, navigation of the social environment, creativity, and imagination. From transdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and literature, we discuss the role of language in the acquisition, processing, storage, and use of information; in processes of perception and attention; in the production and activation of memory; and in the use of speech and writing for communication and the invention of alternative worlds....