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New COVID-19-related words as social antibodies keeping our brain busy.

By Francesca Carota / 28 June 2021

When facing unexpected world changes, as in the case of the current pandemic, the language system adapts to the challenge to express a new reality. How? By forging new words! Let’s find out how this happens by looking at one of the most powerful engines we can count on: our brain.


Messages hidden behind the lips

By Alessio Quaresima / 14 December 2020

What happens in our mind when we hear ambiguous words? Research in psycholinguistics shed light on the rhetorical devices used in poetry and alchemy.


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