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How does our brain process constructed languages like Dothraki and High Valyrian?
Date Posted:
April 25, 2023
Date Recorded:
April 18, 2023
Speaker(s):
Maya Taliaferro - All Captioned Videos
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Maya Taliaferro, Research Scholar, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Want to learn more? Check out these articles:
- "Brains on conlangs" by Jennifer Michalowski | December 12, 2022 [MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research]
- "Hollywood’s Love Affair With Fictional Languages" - In Avatar, the fictional language Na’vi is built on a painstakingly detailed world. By Matteo Wong [The Atlantic]
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