Bantu language shows that processing of focused information may be universal

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.