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The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.
Your brain processes letters, words, sounds, semantics and grammar at breakneck speed.
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Most people can draw from tens of thousands of words in their memory within milliseconds. Studying this process can improve language disorder treatment and appreciation of the gift of communication.
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American scientists have used brain scans and machine learning to reconstruct the meaning of stories that people hear, see, or even imagine.
What’s he trying to say?
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A psycholinguist explains what’s really going on when people misspeak.
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Using machine learning, we analysed meaning and feeling in different translations of an ancient Hindu holy text.
The Oxford English Dictionary tries to include all words in English (particularly British and American English) from 1200 onwards.
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Could bringing back words with positive meanings make us happier?