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And that's what, you know, fMRI offers as a, and, you know, patients are a little messier. fMRI is pretty unambiguous, I'd say. It's like very unambiguous. There's no way to say that the language network is doing any of these tasks. There's like, you should look at those data. It's like, there's no chance that you can say that those networks are overlapping. They're not overlapping.
And that's what, you know, fMRI offers as a, and, you know, patients are a little messier. fMRI is pretty unambiguous, I'd say. It's like very unambiguous. There's no way to say that the language network is doing any of these tasks. There's like, you should look at those data. It's like, there's no chance that you can say that those networks are overlapping. They're not overlapping.
They're just like completely different. And so, you know, you can always make, you know, it's only two people, it's four people or something for the patients. And there's something special about them. We don't know. But these are just random people and with lots of them and you find always the same effects and it's very robust, I'd say.
They're just like completely different. And so, you know, you can always make, you know, it's only two people, it's four people or something for the patients. And there's something special about them. We don't know. But these are just random people and with lots of them and you find always the same effects and it's very robust, I'd say.
They're just like completely different. And so, you know, you can always make, you know, it's only two people, it's four people or something for the patients. And there's something special about them. We don't know. But these are just random people and with lots of them and you find always the same effects and it's very robust, I'd say.
So that term weird is from Joe Henrich. He's at Harvard. He's a Harvard evolutionary biologist. And so he works on lots of different topics. And he basically was pushing that observation that we should be careful about the inferences we want to make when we're talking in psychology or social... Yeah, mostly in psychology, I guess, about...
So that term weird is from Joe Henrich. He's at Harvard. He's a Harvard evolutionary biologist. And so he works on lots of different topics. And he basically was pushing that observation that we should be careful about the inferences we want to make when we're talking in psychology or social... Yeah, mostly in psychology, I guess, about...
So that term weird is from Joe Henrich. He's at Harvard. He's a Harvard evolutionary biologist. And so he works on lots of different topics. And he basically was pushing that observation that we should be careful about the inferences we want to make when we're talking in psychology or social... Yeah, mostly in psychology, I guess, about...
Humans, if we're talking about undergrads at MIT and Harvard, those aren't the same, right? These aren't the same things. And so if you want to make inferences about language, for instance, there's a lot of other kinds of languages in the world than English and French and Chinese. And so maybe for language, we care about how culture...
Humans, if we're talking about undergrads at MIT and Harvard, those aren't the same, right? These aren't the same things. And so if you want to make inferences about language, for instance, there's a lot of other kinds of languages in the world than English and French and Chinese. And so maybe for language, we care about how culture...
Humans, if we're talking about undergrads at MIT and Harvard, those aren't the same, right? These aren't the same things. And so if you want to make inferences about language, for instance, there's a lot of other kinds of languages in the world than English and French and Chinese. And so maybe for language, we care about how culture...
Because cultures can be very... I mean, of course, English and Chinese cultures are very different, but hunter-gatherers are much more different in some ways. And so if culture has an effect on what language is, then we kind of want to look there as well as looking... It's not like the industrialized cultures aren't interesting. Of course they are.
Because cultures can be very... I mean, of course, English and Chinese cultures are very different, but hunter-gatherers are much more different in some ways. And so if culture has an effect on what language is, then we kind of want to look there as well as looking... It's not like the industrialized cultures aren't interesting. Of course they are.
Because cultures can be very... I mean, of course, English and Chinese cultures are very different, but hunter-gatherers are much more different in some ways. And so if culture has an effect on what language is, then we kind of want to look there as well as looking... It's not like the industrialized cultures aren't interesting. Of course they are.
But we want to look at non-industrialized cultures as well. And so I've worked with two. I've worked with the Chimani, which are in Bolivia... And there's Amazon, both in the Amazon in these cases. And there are so-called farmer foragers, which is not hunter-gatherers.
But we want to look at non-industrialized cultures as well. And so I've worked with two. I've worked with the Chimani, which are in Bolivia... And there's Amazon, both in the Amazon in these cases. And there are so-called farmer foragers, which is not hunter-gatherers.
But we want to look at non-industrialized cultures as well. And so I've worked with two. I've worked with the Chimani, which are in Bolivia... And there's Amazon, both in the Amazon in these cases. And there are so-called farmer foragers, which is not hunter-gatherers.
It's sort of one up from hunter-gatherers in that they do a little bit of farming as well, a lot of hunting as well, but a little bit of farming. And the kind of farming they do is the kind of farming that I might do if I ever were to grow like tomatoes or something in my backyard. So it's not like big field farming, it's just farming for a family, a few things you do that.
It's sort of one up from hunter-gatherers in that they do a little bit of farming as well, a lot of hunting as well, but a little bit of farming. And the kind of farming they do is the kind of farming that I might do if I ever were to grow like tomatoes or something in my backyard. So it's not like big field farming, it's just farming for a family, a few things you do that.
It's sort of one up from hunter-gatherers in that they do a little bit of farming as well, a lot of hunting as well, but a little bit of farming. And the kind of farming they do is the kind of farming that I might do if I ever were to grow like tomatoes or something in my backyard. So it's not like big field farming, it's just farming for a family, a few things you do that.