This is Your Brain on Words

Submitted by Judy Hanning on Wed, 2017-01-25 06:00
The article gives information on how our brains process and decipher words. We all process and decipher words differently. Generally though there are a few things that happen that are common for everyone and that is the fact that when we do hear words, there are “little explosions” the go off in our heads when we hear them in reaction to them. This is clarified in the article.

An Article on how we process words into a filing system in our brains.

When we hear words, our brains group and react to each very differently. This is because we store the memory of how we process each in understanding of them and how they affect us. For example when we hear happily, happy, ecstatic, overjoyed, they all mean similar things but each arouse different feeling and memories that are attributed to them. Since these are similar they would be categorized differently in our heads that something that describes physical attributes or maybe even the mannerisms of someone who is happy, ecstatic, or overjoyed.
In breaking research from UC Berkeley, researchers have found a complicated filing system when it comes to how we process words that we hear. While listening to stories, individual words triggered tiny activation explosions all over the brain associated with word associations – ‘Words were grouped under various headings: visual, tactile, numeric, locational, abstract, temporal, professional.'”
~ Fernette Eide

Key Takeaways:

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How the brain reacts when it hears words.
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The system for sorting information received from audio queues.
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How those with Dyslexia react differently either positively or negatively from a “normal” person.
Read the full article here:
http://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/this-is-your-brain-on-words/