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BSP 94: Linguist Benjamin Bergen

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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How Expertise Shapes the Way You Understand Language

language is full of culture specific and language specific learning. Expertise in a particular domain shapes the way you understand language about those things t you know about or don't. There's some cool studies, right imaging studies looking at how people understand language about actions that they're expert in verses not. The hawkey players use parts of a premotor tex which sort of coordinates high level learned routines much more so than the novices do the people who've never played hawkey.

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