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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.

Neurolinguistics Psychology Psycholinguistics

Freudian Slips or Brain Glitches? What Slips of the Tongue Reveal About How We Organize Language

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When you accidentally say “a lack of pies” instead of “a pack of lies,” what’s really happening? While Freud saw hidden desires, modern linguists see a “brain glitch” that offers a fascinating window into how our minds organize language. These common errors reveal that our brains build sentences on the fly, storing words and sounds in complex networks that sometimes get their wires crossed.

Neurolinguistics History Science Psycholinguistics

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.