What does your brain do when you hear the word ‘pepper’? What about ‘grasp’? Or ‘hat’? All these words fire up not just your language circuits, but different senses through other relevant brain circuitry. ‘Pepper’ activates your taste circuits. ‘Grasp’, your motor movement circuits. ‘Hat’ – visual circuits. Whatever you...

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