How do our brains process speech? - Gareth Gaskell
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2020
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The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words. Spoken out loud, most of these words last less than a second. With every word, the brain has a quick decision to make: which of those thousands of options matches the signal? And about 98% of the time, the brain chooses the correct word. How is this possible? Gareth Gaskell digs into the complexities of speech comprehension.
Lesson by Gareth Gaskell, directed by Art Shot.
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When someone says even one syllable, it’s basically hangman for the entire audience.
Even when you don’t want to listen to what is being said. My brain can disregard words spoken in another language but not my own.
What is a syllable?
It’s hard to argue with his assessment
@@gyroscope8244 for example syllable has 3 syllables: sy, lla, ble. Happy has 2: hap, py
@@virajagr thank you very much
I'm multilingual and there are times when I swear I can feel my brain switching over to a different language. It's as if the different languages are stored in different compartments of my brain.
I feel the same way. I can speak Portuguese and English with a high Proficiency level (Both C2) and Spanish with a certain degree of fluency. It does indeed feel like the brain switches from one to the other, and it takes time! Interestingly, it's s different amount of time for each language. For instance, I can shift from Portuguese to English in the blink of eye, but not the other way around: it takes (much) longer.
In the dream my brain is switching language sometime Bengali sometime hindi and sometime English 😊
I am multilingual as well but I feel that sometimes I am groping for words when I go for long stretches not speaking one of the languages I spoke fluently as a child. I wonder if recognition v speech are handled differently. While I can comprehend the meaning quickly, I feel like my brain forces me to think in English and translate to that language to respond.
Same I speak English and Hindi
I had a cerebral palsy and autism affected my speech since I was a newborn girl.
*Me: Having a weird feeling while listening to each and every word in this video* 👽
I need a word for this kind of discomfort
@@dt5092 diswordformia
DT braiworda
@Paulo Mendes why exactly?
The triptastic visuals don't exactly help ease said weird feeling.
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Awesome comment. Funniest so far.
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That's what I think after read 2 seconds advantage
Hahahahaha that was a good one .
My brain's accuracy listening to someone talk: 98%
My brain's accuracy listening to a song: 5%
'Cause you're not a native speaker (like myself)
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Even as a native speaker of English I struggle way more to hear lyrics than make out spoken words. I also typically struggle more to hear words in movies and such than in real life (to a lesser extent), but I think some of that is the fact that movies tend to be full of loud sounds and music and oddly whispery or overly enthusiastic voices, lol
This is because the instrumental sounds trump the lyrics.
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It’s true that it’s way easier to understand singing with no accompanying music, but it’s still not as easy as understanding speech
Music is filled with emotion too, so that is also probably getting in the way. When I was a kid I was really good at figuring out lyrics, listening to records back in the 60s and 70s and not internet, and many musicians didn't put their lyrics on the jacket. My friends and family would seek out my help sometimes. But as I got older it got harder, so age must play a role too. Plus I have developed tinnitus, which doesn't help...
My brain: Ok we planned for this scenario and practiced it in our minds a hundred times already, all you gonna do is speak normally and don't mess this up.
My mouth: How about..... NO
Meehoy Minoy!!!!!
just like the simulations
"98% of the time the brain chooses the correct words"
Idiots like me: Allow us th introduce ourselves
The "th" tho, i see what you did there 😂
Yup
Non-Americans like me: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
Can we just talk about the animation
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You mean the type of heavy drugs involved? :-)
Noukz not exactly I was talking about the interesting style
@@shamikakelkar9833 And I was talking about the drugs the designers were using :-)
I love the animation xD
@@Noukz37 okay don't u think that's pretty rude?
*that awkward moment when you realize your brain is processing the words he's using to explain how the brain processes words*
When my language arts teacher explained the definition of etymology, my mind literally exploded with words I have remembered from that point in time to as far back as I can remember. It made me more avid of using the dictionary at certain times and at the same time rely less on the dictionary; a paradox of usage.
By becoming fluent in multiple languages that are fundamentally different (i.e. Greek, Mandarin), my brain began to somewhat subconsciously sort and compartmentalize new vocabulary. When I learn a new word in Chinese, my brain will often make note of several factors, such as level of formality, part of speech, any presence of humor/cuteness/playfulness, and potential synonyms.
However, I became retroactively aware that I had been subconsciously doing the same thing when acquiring English as a child. For example, "scald" might activate "burn+wet+verb" in my head, while "deceive" might be "lie+action+formal+intent to obtain sth." This sort of thing became more apparent when I had Chinese classmates ask me things like "what's the difference between promise and swear?". I had to analyze the specific context and implications of words I'd used since primary school.
Suddenly felt amazed, we all can understand word by word in this video... It is just mind blowing.
Thank you for this video. My dad is having to learn how to “talk” again. He is having trouble with basically the overall of what this video is about. It’s nice to learn more about how the brain works around it and maybe a way to help him more now that I understand more. Thank you for the video, amazing as always!!
"each word that we know, is separated by a different processing unit"
My processing unit for everything I studied and orally remembered: *[disappears]*
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In the entire video I had been thinking how I was processing those words and I lost tract of what the speaker was saying. I consciously was thinking about it and had to rewind everytime. Anybody else did the same??
Yeah it happens quite a lot with me as well
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This video is so accurate to my thoughts. I always think how people can understand themselves with word. Even now i am listening, seeing the words. How does that process happen. Unfortunately, the more i am aware of that, the more😂 i don't understand my own language anymore. That feeling is like you are hearing the sound of wind while trying to figure out its meanings😢. But now i finally understand, i can live free now!!
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Its brilliant.. i usually don't speak much but think alot inside my brain.. n most of the time my brain face hard time selecting the proper word for speech.. i guess my brain has not been trained much regarding verbal speech.. i m multilingual.. and i feel like i don't have proper command over any language.. it takes me time to process..
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I thought of Capillaries and was disappointed to hear Captain 😅
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The word “hippocampus” was store in my hippocampus during this video
thank u for mentioning sign recognition as being similar to spoken word recognition.🙌🏻
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