Sentence examples for predisposed to language from inspiring English sources
Indeed, Cheney and Seyfarth (p. 15, 109) believe that "natural selection has led to the evolution of a mind innately predisposed to search for the patterns and rules that underlie other baboons' behavior," just as children's brains are predisposed to language learning.
Despite indications that some individuals are biologically or genetically predisposed to be extraordinary language learners, however, Erard reveals equal support for alternative explanations.
There have always been children who — neurologically predisposed to speak eight languages, play a sonata by ear after a single hearing or discern in a fog of numbers the organization of the universe — defy the limits of youth.
"So why did they judge all Arabs by the 9/11 hijackers?" Such is the pain of the dwindling number of friends America has in the Arab world; some of the sharpest criticism of America, notes a western diplomat, now comes from Arab liberals who had shared American hopes of a democratic domino effect.Among the larger number of Arabs predisposed to dislike America, the language is harsher.
Lev-Ari also found that trust decreases when exposed to non-native languages, meaning our brains are predisposed to unconscious, linguistic discrimination.
It turns out we're biologically predisposed to like visual stimuli; we don't have to learn a language to decode it, and its effects are visceral and immediate.
The point is, the selfie is something that students of social psychology, human behavior, visual language and smartphone culture all must take rather more seriously than they might otherwise be predisposed to do -- and the same goes for artists.
Are we predisposed to diabetes?
"I'm predisposed to hold back".
Some people are predisposed to this condition.
