
BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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What's the Difference Between Priming and Perky?
Benjamin, i'm sort of confused about the difference een priming and the perky effect. What determines whether it's going to be a compatibility effect or a priming effect, versus a interference type perky effect? Yes, that's a question that's at the core of the story that we want to tell about simulation. And whet i'm happy to talk about. Suppose it's the case that you use the same brain system, or overlapping brain system, to perform two completely distinct tasks,. say, to move your hand through space and also to understand a word that describes movingyour hand through space same way, the word punch. How exactly would that show up in behavior
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