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21 Why Does the Brain Treat Passive and Active Voice Differently?
When we process language, our minds are resolving a constant tension between the formal arrangement of words and the abstract ideas they convey. For decades, neuroscientists have debated whether our biology separates these two elements or processes them together.In this episode, we unpack the experimental designs and neural imaging studies that shed light on this debate. We discuss how researchers utilize precise active-passive voice comparisons to isolate grammar from vocabulary, and how unified models organize the brain's language network into distinct processing streams.Structural and…
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