The Human Brain’s Greatest Invention: The Neuroscience of Language (The Social Brain ep 42)

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Published 2024-07-19

Something fascinating is happening as you watch this video. You are effortlessly converting a series of sounds into meaningful thoughts. To do that, your brain has to take a sound wave and somehow extract from it a specific message that I’m trying to convey to you right now. We rarely stop to think about how weird language is. It’s even rarer that we ask ourselves how our brains do any of that.

In this episode, we’ll talk about all this while exploring some of the neuroscience of language.

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All Comments (8)

@psikeyhackr6914 yesterday

The Tyranny of Words (1938) by Stuart Chase George Orwell mentioned Chase in an essay on politics. Chase published the book, A New Deal shortly before FDR's famous speech. He was a member of FDR's brain trust.
@frankdiluzio8690 2 days ago

I watched like 3 minutes and heard the word 'like' like 30% of the time.
@b-eazy6663 2 days ago

If you look out into the universe and look and see what you can see and then everything you can't see it took all of it to be able to make it happen
@vivekrtalks5861 2 days ago

Please give some tips sharpen brain after tbi
@life42theuniverse yesterday

Language is older than Homo Sapiens
@PhillipYewTree yesterday

Like, like, like, like, like, like, like. Irritating
@VictorBrunko 10 days ago

If you guys mention AI or linguistics models at least once, I'm out