Languages have different ways of highlighting relevant information. Recent research shows that despite these differences, the consequences are the same: to trigger a brain response to process information more deeply. In an EEG study published in PNAS, led by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen, researchers investigated Makhuwa, a Bantu language that highlights relevant information in a different way than many Indo-European languages. Results reveal a universal pattern of processing relevant information.
