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Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here’s how your brain stores and retrieves words

Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here’s how your brain stores and retrieves words

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary – not the one on your phone, but the one in your head. Just like a physical dictionary, your mental dictionary contains information about words. This includes the letters, sounds and meaning, or semantics, of […]…