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A Blind Mind’s Eye: How People with Aphantasia Experience Language

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How does someone who cannot form mental images understand a phrase like “a forest of emerald green”? This post explores aphantasia, revealing how the brain can build rich meaning from language through facts and concepts, not pictures. It’s a fascinating look into the diverse ways we turn words into worlds, challenging our most basic assumptions about language and thought.

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When Words Disappear: A Journey into Aphasia and the Brain’s Language Centers

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Aphasia offers a profound look into how language is mapped in our brain. This journey explores the difference between Broca’s aphasia, where a person struggles to produce words, and Wernicke’s aphasia, where speech is fluent but lacks meaning. These conditions reveal that language is not a single function but a complex symphony conducted by highly specialized neural regions.