By adamg on Tue., 3/18/2025 - 10:46 am
MIT News reports on the outcome of sticking people who can actually speak Esperanto, Klingon, Na'vi and High Valyrian into MRI machines while they were read texts in those languages: The same parts of their brains that become activated while listening to "natural" languages such as English were activated. This is different from people being read excerpts of the computer-programming language Python, who had a different part of the brain go into action.
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Computer programming is not speech
By necturus
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 1:09pm
...so it follows that the brain is going to process it differently.
Brain split
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 8:58am
I prefer to listen to raucous hard core OG punk while coding or doing math-related work - but I can't stand that if I'm reading or writing things. I switch to instrumental classical guitar or Lo Fi when doing those language tasks.
It is really cool to see that left/right brain split effect in a research study, though. Brains are amazing things.
Klingon
By Lanny Budd
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 2:48pm
The only word I know is Ziplock.
Broken link?
By cdevers
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 3:29pm
The link in the article is supposed to go to MIT News, but it’s just this article itself.
Looks like the article in question is here:
in software speak...
By JJ
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 4:22pm
... that's called recursion.
Link fixed
By adamg
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 8:33am
Stupid mistake.
Brain wants to decode brain.
By Frelmont
Tue, 03/18/2025 - 10:35pm
Brain wants to know brain.
Who paid for this study? The
By Don't Panic
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 1:16am
Who paid for this study? The DOGgiE squad wants to know!
I don't really know MIT, but I will bet they just had that MRI machine laying around somewhere and the value has already depreciated. The study came out of a brainstorming session on what to do with it.
Answer
By perruptor
Wed, 03/19/2025 - 6:44am
According to the MIT News article:*
Sounds like they have their own MRI machine used for brain studies.
*The link in this UHub story leads to itself.
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