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Brain

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Your brain hallucinates words you did not hear.
In the phonemic restoration effect, listeners report hearing a missing phoneme in a word if the gap is replaced by a n…
You categorize people to save your brain energy.
A 1994 study demonstrated that stereotypes act as cognitive energy-saving devices, allowing people to conserve cogniti…
You can temporarily destroy the meaning of any word.
Semantic satiation is triggered by the high frequency of word repetition over a short period, rather than a specific 3…