
BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Is There a Difference Between Human Language and Other Primates?
Bodied approach suggests that human cognitive abilities are built on parts of the brain we share with other mammals, and i guess, especially primates. People who have prefrontal legions will have more trouble with nouns describing things that they know about interacting with using their bodies. And people with posterior legions will be more likely to lose nouns describing thing that they know most about through sight,. so like giraffe and butterfly.
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