
BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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The Role of Culture in Cognitive Simulations
Research shows that language has a lot of a big predictive and i mean, that's why we don't even hear when people say misspoken words. People are spending all their time trying to figure out what's going to come next,. And they're not just doing passive appreciation and processing of input as it comes in. They are predictive machines, absolutely. There can be huge differences across cultures that shape the nature of our experiences and therefore thenature of our simulation.
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