“In a sense, you listen to every person with different ears, because everyone speaks differently,” says Orhun Uluşahin, who will defend his dissertation at Radboud University on October 17. His research shows that our brains adapt rapidly to a speaker in order to understand them, and that we even adapt our own speech to the person we are talking to.
Who you talk to influences how you talk, researcher finds
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