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Natural language is a bit too complex for that I think. There can't be any universal stimuli simply because there's multiple languages and cultures that don't
by qayxc 5y ago
Natural language is a bit too complex for that I think.
There can't be any universal stimuli simply because there's multiple languages and cultures that don't all have the same response to stimuli.
There's a relationship between neural activity and writing system, for example [0].
Then there's stimuli that activate the language centre in some languages (e.g. click-sounds the Khoisan language families in Africa) but not in others. Some languages (especially East Asian languages like Vietnamese) also use tone to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning, while Indo-European languages do not. which is another significant difference in (here: verbal) language processing.
All this leads me to conjecture that supernormal stimuli are highly unlikely in this context due to the high-level nature of the subject as well as the differences and the diversity in the involved regions of the brain.
[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168010211020980 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01680...