Dr. Amit Almor of my alma mater and his team have used fMRI images of the brain to see just what is going on when people use pronouns versus proper nouns. They found that the spatial area of the brain lights up when proper nouns are used, implying that the brain builds a new representation [...]
Archive for 19 August 2007
Pronouns prevent brain overload
Posted: 19 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: american sign language, chomsky, language acquisition, linguistics, neurolinguistics, neurology, pronouns
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Who’s your candidate?
Posted: 19 August 2007 in UncategorizedTags: candidates, politics, presidential election, tests
If you don’t know which candidate agrees with you most, there is a great blind test that will match you with the candidate who most agrees with you (link sent to me by my good friend at the Wrathful Dove). You simply indicate whether you Support/Oppose/Other an issue and then whether that issue is no [...]
