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Interlude XXX – Neural Semantics: How Language Rewrites the Brain
In this concluding interlude of the Language Arc, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines how language reshapes the brain itself. Drawing on contemporary neuroscience rather than abstract philosophy, this episode explores how repeated linguistic patterns sculpt neural circuits, alter perceptual thresholds, and reorganize attention, memory, and emotion.
The episode traces research on experience-dependent plasticity in language networks, including work on phonemic tuning, semantic framing, and predictive processing. Studies of bilingualism, late language acquisition, and narrative reframing reveal that…
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