Nov 24
Semantic satiation →
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.This is officially a series.
I have felt this before, many times. I didn’t know it had a term…
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the line in Brief Lives where Delirium asks if there is a word for “when you say a word so much it doesn’t mean anything...
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I knew they had to have a term for this!
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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation)...cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which...
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YES. I’m so glad there’s a name for this.
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I love finding out the names for concepts I was aware of but never knew what they were called.
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For Albert/Rachel.
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I used to do this to myself when on road trips with my family. I still remember the first time this happened, the word...
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