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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .Gato. Lata. Fajo. Mora. Pelo.Risa.
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3 .Confused? Uh-huh.
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4 .Well, you should be.
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5 .And not just because we're suddenly speaking en Espa?ol,
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6 .but because each word has a grammatical gender that we purposely mismatched with the sex of the person who said it.
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7 .Such verbal incongruity can slow our ability to process language, according to linguists writing in the journal PLOS One.
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8 .When we listen to the spoken word, we take away more than its meaning.
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9 .We also learn something about the speaker, like where he or she comes from and whether he or she is a he or a she.
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10 .But some psychologists think that we strip away all that extraneous information when our brains process what we hear.
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11 .To test that assumption, researchers asked 20 native Spanish speakers to listen to a list of Spanish words.
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12 .Half the terms were masculine,they ended in 'o',the other half feminine, ending in 'a'.
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13 .And when the sex of the word and the talker differed, listeners who were asked to identify the word's gender took longer and made more mistakes.
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14 .The opposite effect did not take place.
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15 .Listeners were able to identify the sex of the speaker con no problemo.
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16 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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