The scientists were awarded for a study in which they analyzed a strange peculiarity in the brains of some humans.
He IgNobel Prize -awarded by the Harvard University– highlights researchers who discover relevance in the human brain that previously went unnoticed. These investigations must be curious and at the same time striking, as happened with the team of Argentine scientists who took the award of this year.
The team is led by neuroscientist Adolfo GarcíaWith Sol Fittipaldi, Lucas Sedeno, Agustín Ibáñez, Marcelo Berthier, María José Torres-Prioris and the Spanish Diana López-Barroso and Wake Chamber. His study -published in the journal Scientific Reports– won the top prize for investigating the mental activities of people who are experts in speaking backwards.
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The IgNobels are known as the Nobel Side B either Nobel Bizarresince they usually have a much louder tone humorous. Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR)the awards are presented by a series of collaborators that includes real Nobel Prize winners, during a ceremony organized at the Harvard University.
The ceremony is characterized by anecdotal moments in which paper airplanes are thrown into the audience, or by acceptance speeches interrupted by a girl after exactly 60 seconds. Behind all the fun, the objective of the award is serious, as it seeks to give a alternative perspective on science and highlight the importance of research which at first glance may seem strange.
How was the study of the Argentines
This scientific research It is unprecedented in Latin Americaand is part of an even larger study to search detect dementia through Artificial Intelligence.
“We study the brains of people who speak backwards,” García himself defined on the networks. At work –Neurocognitive signatures of phonemic sequencing in expert backward speakers-, they analyzed the neurocognitive mechanisms of experience in backward speech, as it is believed that they can be a “window into phonological mechanisms and phoneme sequencing.”
According to the results, it is believed that people who possess this ability have high skills of phoneme sequencing, and results that “illuminate an understudied dimension of phonological-phonetic coding, while informing new models of experience related to language.
Source: Ambito
