Language and Genes – Language and the Mind

Language and Genes – Language and the Mind

You mentioned genes sometimes and usually in the literature in neuroscience and psychology we read about some genes that have some effects on our behavior. Sometimes they couldn't cause diseases, sometimes they can. We can inherit some traits, but how easily we can...

Stuttering and singing – Language and the Mind

Stuttering and singing – Language and the Mind

There was an interesting story of a guy who stuttered when he was reading the Quran or some kind of singing, he never stuttered; everybody thought that it was a miracle simply and it was happening because of the Quran. I listened to the story of Megan Washington and...

Crib bilinguals – Language and the Mind

Crib bilinguals – Language and the Mind

My first question will be about language for children under the age of one year. Many of us think that children don't have any knowledge or any kind of processing for the language in the brain at that age, but you mentioned that listening to multiple languages could...