by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics, Neuroscience
Can we now say that no single part of the brain that is specific for language? What are the main parts, and what are the other functions that they serve? This vision is, of course, adopted by Elizabeth Bates, which you mentioned multiple times. This will help someone...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics, Psychology
The experiment that you mentioned about the Turks and the English speakers was very interesting. The native English speakers acted differently to emotionally loaded words than Turks who learned English later in life. Can we run away from a time or a place that we...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics
I have a question from Issam Munir, a resident doctor and a neurologist in Baghdad, Iraq: “When does a human start getting indulged rhymes and poems? And what is the neurodevelopment that happens in the brain for that? And why is it difficult for someone to enjoy...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics
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...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics
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...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics
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...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 31, 2024 | Linguistics
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...
