Brains may strain While Processing Motion in Other Languages by Angela Mohan on December 10, 2020 at 12:13 PM
Our brain has to work a little harder when we re reading about physical movement in a way that is not typical in our native language, according to the new study by Seyda Ozcalışkan, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University, former faculty member Christopher M. Conway, and Samantha Emerson, a former Georgia State University graduate student.
Their study, Semantic P600 but not N400 effects index crosslinguistic variability in speakers expectancies for expression of motion was published recently in the journal
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Different languages can make human brains to work harder while processing motion descriptions
We all run from a burning building the same way fast! but how we describe it depends on the language we speak. In some languages, we might flee, race, or bolt, while in others we might just exit or leave the building quickly.
Different languages describe motion differently, according to distinct lexical rules. And though we may not consciously notice those rules, we follow them and Georgia State researchers have found they affect how our brains perceive and process descriptions of physical movement.
Our brain has to work a little harder when we re reading about physical movement in a way that is not typical in our native language, according to a new study by Şeyda Özçalışkan, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State University, former faculty member Christopher M. Conway, and Samantha Emerson, a former Georgia State University graduate student.