How 'Not' Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives - Neuroscience News

neurosciencenews.com

How 'Not' Changes Everything: Brain Interprets Negated Adjectives - Neuroscience News

neurosciencenews.com

Daryl76679@lemmy.ml to

Linguistics@mander.xyz · 2 years ago

Researchers found that negating adjectives with "not" affects how our brains interpret their meaning, mitigating rather than inverting their definition.

You must log in or # to comment.

Chat

Linguistics@mander.xyz

linguistics@mander.xyz

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !linguistics@mander.xyz

Welcome to the community about the science of human Language!

Everyone is welcome here: from laypeople to professionals, Historical linguists to discourse analysts, structuralists to generativists.

Rules:

Instance rules apply.
Be reasonable, constructive, and conductive to discussion.
Stay on-topic, specially for more divisive subjects. And avoid unnecessary mentioning topics and individuals prone to derail the discussion.
Post sources when reasonable to do so. And when sharing links to paywalled content, provide either a short summary of the content or a freely accessible archive link.
Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.
Have fun!

Related communities:

Resources:

Grammar Watch - contains descriptions of the grammars of multiple languages, from the whole world.

Visibility: Public

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

26 users / day
69 users / week
194 users / month
528 users / 6 months
1 local subscriber
1.8K subscribers
136 Posts
473 Comments
Modlog