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113. Damian Blasi: Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science, linguistic diversity, and how to study a language you don't speak
1 hour 41 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2025 at 7:00 am.
: Why Damian studied physics 0:06:31: How to deal wit...
Why Damian studied physics
How to deal with small, sparse, incomplete, imbalanced, noisy, and non-independent observational data
Evolutionary advantages of different languages
How Damian started doing research on linguistics
How to study a language you don't speak
Start discussing Damian's paper 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science'
What can experimental scientists do about the vast differences between cultures, especially of difficult to reach peoples? And how different are languages and cultures really?
Why is New Guinea so (linguistically) diverse?
Should I learn a common or a rare language? And where?
A book or paper more people should read
Something Damian wishes he'd learnt sooner
Advice for PhD students/postdocs
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Damian Blasi is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. We talk about his article 'Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science', linguistic diversity, how to study across the world's languages, his career path, and much more. BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreon Timestamps
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