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Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here's how your brain stores and retrieves words

  • Written by Nichol Castro, Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo
Your mental dictionary is part of what makes you unique − here's how your brain stores and retrieves wordsYour brain processes letters, words, sounds, semantics and grammar at breakneck speed.StudioM1/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The days of having a dictionary on your bookshelf are numbered. But that’s OK, because everyone already walks around with a dictionary – not the one on your phone, but the one in your head.

Just like a physical...

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