What exactly is cognitive control, and what advantages does it offer? How does language, particularly multilingualism, enhance cognitive control? I’ll return to this language network that I just described. You don’t need to appreciate the complexities of...
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...
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...
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...
Dennet dedicates the 6th chapter to discuss consciousness of time. The first question he raises is about an experiment where a person is asked to repeat what they hear from a recording of speech. The person can recount some of what they heard but not all, even though...
In chapter five of his book “consciousness explained”, Dennett debunks the Cartesian Theatre idea and introduces his theory: the Multiple Drafts Model. Descartes’ idea, also known as Cartesian Theatre, persisted until the 20th century. Dennett...
Heterophenomenology is defined by Dennett to be a third person perspective when studying consciousness or mental experience. It serves as Dennett’s departure point in addressing the complexities of consciousness. Phenomenology traditionally relies on a...
