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What’s the difference between an understandable word we’ve never heard before, like “tributer”, and one we’ve heard countless times, like “admirer”? How does the brain process familiar vs. new words, and what about a new word shapes its processing?

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In the MEG, participants read and judged matched familiar and new words. The temporal and frontal lobes handled different familiar words in much the same way but differentiated among new words based on how common their word-building pattern was.

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Meanwhile, while new words differed among each other, matched familiar and new words did not: a new word is processed more similarly to its familiar counterpart than another type of new word.

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These findings invite the field to reassess our understanding of lexicality and to treat it more as a cognitively evaluable metric instead of a binary variable.

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"Productivity matters for the neural processing of novel words, but not existing ones" 📢New paper from: Marianne Azar & Alec Marantz www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Productivity matters for the neural processing of novel words, but not existing onesEvery day, we are likely to encounter novel words. We might even make those ourselves from familiar parts of words we know, creating something new and…www.sciencedirect.com