Ancient, 2025. doi: 10.15184/aqy.2025.37 (About DOI).
This is your brain of Esperanto and Klingons
Mogh’s son Worf is surprised by the new fMRI study.
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Jrr Tolkien invented two Elf languages (Kenya and Cindarin) When writing Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I have Star Trek Klingon, Avatar It’s in the movie Naviand game of thrones It boasts two built languages, or conran. Dosulaki and Highberian. There are even hardcore fans who are passionately skilled in the invented language. And, obviously, it activates the same part of the brain with the native tongue. paper It is featured in the minutes of the National Academy of Sciences.
MIT Neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko Previously It spearheaded research into how the brain responds to stimuli that share specific language features (music, gestures, facial expressions, computer programming languages like Python). No one was involved in the brain’s language processing area. I’m curious to see what makes natural language unique, Fedorenko et al. He turned to Conlands. They held a weekend meeting featuring Conlang Creators as speakers, and invited talented people from Esperanto, Klingon, Navi, Dosraki and Haiberilian. They listened to both the selected Conran and the native language sentences and performed nonverbal tasks as controls, scanned 44 Conran speakers with fMRI.
Results: The same language area was illuminated whether or not it spoke in the selected conrun and native natural language. This helped the group determine that linguistic responses seemed to be driven in part by the way that they conveyed the meaning of objects, events, and other properties, such as objects, events, and other meanings, such as objects, events, etc., which are detached from the everyday “real” world we experience. The group will then study how the brain reacts to another conran called Rojvancreated in the 1990s and learn more about which language features activate the brain’s language center.
