Spoken-language interactions between people are at the very core of our human societies. We become sensitive to spoken language well before birth and use it throughout childhood and adulthood in our exchanges with other human beings as well as, increasingly, artificial systems. In spite of their being a central feature of our everyday life, much remains to be uncovered about the cognitive and cerebral processes that govern the use of spoken language in social interactions. This blog will focus on how spoken language is used in conversational exchanges and on what makes these exchanges possible at the cognitive and brain levels.
Conversational Brains
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