Neurolinguistics

Cluttering: The Other Fluency Disorder

While stuttering is widely recognized, Cluttering is the "orphan" of speech disorders, characterized by rapid bursts of speech and the…

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Echolalia: The Function of Repetition

Echolalia, the involuntary repetition of another person's words, has long been misunderstood as a barrier to communication. However, through the…

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The Affective Filter: Why Anxiety Kills Fluency

Despite years of study, many language learners freeze up in real-world conversations, a phenomenon explained by Stephen Krashen's "Affective Filter"…

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Mirror Writing: Da Vinci’s Brain and Dyslexia

Far from being a mere mistake, mirror writing offers a fascinating glimpse into how the human brain processes visual symmetry…

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Word Salad: The Linguistics of Schizophrenia

Schizophasia, or "word salad", represents a complex linguistic breakdown found in conditions like schizophrenia, where the structure of language remains…

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Semantic Satiation: When Words Lose Meaning

Have you ever repeated a word so many times that it started to sound like nonsense? This psychological phenomenon is…

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The Stroop Effect: A Bilingual Brain Test

Ever tried to say the color of a word when the text itself spells a different color? This is the…

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Mirror Neurons: The Brain’s Imitation Engine

Discover how a serendipitous discovery involving monkeys and peanuts revolutionized our understanding of linguistics. We dive into the science of…

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Dyslexia in Logograms: Reading Differences in Chinese

While Western dyslexia is primarily a phonological challenge involving sound-letter mapping, research shows that dyslexia in Chinese functions differently, impacting…

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Stuttering John’s Lost Language

In the 10th century, an envoy named John of Gorze adopted a radical language-learning strategy: two years of total silence…

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