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Mailbag Installment 9: Language, Gender, and the Plural Brain
In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a listener question that opens one of the most consequential inquiries in cognitive science and lived experience: how language shapes perception, identity, and inner life.
Drawing from neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology, this episode explores what happens in the brain when a person speaks more than one language. Dr. Rey examines bilingual and polyglot cognition through the lens of real research, including studies on inner speech, working memory, emotional processing, and executive control. The…
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