
BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Driving and Talking on the Telphone
language interferes with driving for another way, and that's the content specific way. You're using your vision system when you're processing language about visual stuff. And as a result, your vision system is slightly less available to see the car that's about to merge in front of you. We know that from experiments using a driving stimulator here in my lap. This is one of the places where this basic science research is starting to interface with the things that people actually do in the real world. i think it's an exciting area of future development.
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