Hey, O. Maddie, Sivai here with the Indomitable Emily Quang.

Oh, I thank you. Hey, everybody. We are here with another microwave, the series, not the kitchen tool.

Correct. Yes.

Microwaves are what we're calling these mini-low episodes with a few quick science facts and some

Lister mail, which you people seem to love last time. So here we are given the people what they want.

And this time we've got some neuroscience, right? Yes. The one true love of our producer Rebecca Ramirez.

Indeed. So today we are talking boxing about some cool effects that happen in your brain.

Wait, sorry. Did you just say talking boxing? Your little brain picked up on that, didn't it?

Yeah. Is this a neuroscience episode about words or something?

I was going on. You're on to me, Quang. So last week was hashtag black in neuro week, a week celebrating

black excellence in neuroscience-related fields. And one scientist, Sarah Phillips, is a neuro-linguist.

She studies, yes. She studies how the brain processes language. So today on the show, what happens in the brain

when we notice a grammatical mistake according to neuroscience?

In less than 10 minutes. Just get out, boobity bob.

Boobity bob.

Okay. So earlier I did this thing that probably sounded weird to you, Emily.

Yeah, your sentence, it didn't make any sense, but you know another day, another dollar.

Right. Okay. Well, so when someone does something unexpected like that when they're talking to you or

get this, even when you're reading something that doesn't follow these standard conventions of

the language, something kind of cool happens in your brain. Oh, so they can actually measure this.

Right. So when we study the brain, one of the ways that we can study brain activities is by

measuring electrical current that is flowing through your cortex, right? So the surface of your

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