Why Does A Word Look Stupid After You Stare At It?
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Why Does A Word Look Stupid After You Stare At It?
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Why does a word start to look completely ridiculous the longer you stare at it? This week, Teresa dives into the strange brain glitch known as semantic satiation—when repetition temporarily breaks the connection between a word and its meaning.
Along the way, she explores other weird mental hiccups, from tip-of-the-tongue moments and middle-of-the-night memory breakthroughs to déjà vu and misheard lyrics (looking at you, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”).
Your brain is incredible… but sometimes it absolutely trolls you.
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