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

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

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Linguistics@mander.xyz · 5 months ago

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

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