Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

By Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne

70: Language in the brain - Interview with Ev Fedorenko

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Published July 21, 2022 5:20pm

Your brain is where language - and all of your other thinking - happens. In order to figure out how language fits in among all of the other things you do with your brain, we can put people in fancy brain scanning machines and then create very controlled setups where exactly one thing is different. For example, comparing looking at words versus nonwords (of the same length, on the same background) or listening to audio clips of a language you do speak vs a language you donโ€™t speak.In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch talks with Dr Evelina Fe...

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