For example, she has shown that speakers of languages that use different words for different types of spatial relationships (e.g. "left" versus "right") are better at remembering the location of objects than speakers of languages that do not make this distinction.

Boroditsky has conducted a number of studies that have shown how the language we speak can influence our perception of time, space, and other aspects of our environment. For example, speakers of languages that use different words for different types of snow (e.g. "wet snow" versus "dry snow") are better at discriminating between different types of snow than speakers of languages that do not make this distinction.