It always takes more time and effort to process new or unusual information, and it might be pretty beneficial.
Specialists have discovered that sentences with unusual grammar or unexpected meaning tend to activate the brain's language processing centers more strongly.
Let's find out more about this discovery.
Complex sentences are amazing
Sentences that are simple or nonsensical barely tickle the brain's language processing centers, while more unusual sentences like "Buy sell signals remains a particular" ignite high activity in the brain network.
The researchers specifically examined language-processing regions in the left hemisphere of the brain, encompassing Broca's area and other sections of the left frontal and temporal lobes.
They gathered a diverse collection of 1,000 sentences from different sources and employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure participants' brain activity.
By training an encoding model to anticipate the brain's response based on patterns from an artificial language model, they successfully pinpointed sentences that triggered the highest and lowest brain activity, validating their hypotheses.
Interestingly, greater linguistic complexity, particularly in terms of higher surprisal, was found to elicit stronger brain responses.
Previously, we talked about time management.
