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#630 - Valerie Fridland - Why Is Everyone Saying ‘Like’ and ‘Um’ All The Time?

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The Effects of Twerking on Cognitive Processing

The more we use um, and uh, the more likely it is that we're actually doing harder things like coming up with words we don't use very often. It's basically a sort of signal of brain churning. So we tend to correlate our uh, and um use with how difficult the thing we're doing is. And probably why we um, and Uh, more when we're in context that require, you know, higher morpholutants sorts of speech.

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