MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and Dothraki on “Game of Thrones.”
To further refine the features of language that activate the brain’s language network, Fedorenko’s lab is now planning to study how the brain responds to a conlang called Lojban, which was created by the Logical Language Group in the 1990s and was designed to prevent ambiguity of meanings and promote more efficient communication.
It’s in their conclusion section as a quick sentence blurb about future work, almost like it was brought up in the peer review process but they didn’t want to rerun the whole experiment.
Whoops, I guess I was skimming by the time I reached that point, thanks.
I won’t be surprised if it’s also indistinguishable from natural languages; I speak a bit of Arabic and was surprised to learn how “mathematical” the root/pattern system is - it felt like arguments into functions.
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It’s in their conclusion section as a quick sentence blurb about future work, almost like it was brought up in the peer review process but they didn’t want to rerun the whole experiment.
Whoops, I guess I was skimming by the time I reached that point, thanks.
I won’t be surprised if it’s also indistinguishable from natural languages; I speak a bit of Arabic and was surprised to learn how “mathematical” the root/pattern system is - it felt like arguments into functions.