Between what I’ve been trying so hard to see, and what appears to be real
Far from processing every word we read or hear, our brains often do not even notice key words that can change the whole meaning of a sentence, according to new research. […]
Semantic illusions provide a strong line of evidence that the way we process language is often shallow and incomplete. […]
Analyses of brain activity revealed that we are more likely to use this type of shallow processing under conditions of higher cognitive load — that is, when the task we are faced with is more difficult or when we are dealing with more than one task at a time.
