Brains are captivating. My research aimed to understand how multilingual individuals navigate all the languages they speak and how that plays into their conceptualization of the ethnobiological world.

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The multilingual ethnobiological lexicon provides a window into the mind. The ethnobiological lexicon is a connected system of knowledge involving all languages of a person’s repertoire. One cannot examine just one language of a person’s repertoire and completely understand their ethnobiological knowledge.

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I developed an ethnobiological stimuli set to examine the ethnobiological lexicon in 5 of the most common languages in Nyanjida. It focused on participants' lexical choices within and across languages to understand cognitive flexibility, control, and coordination.