True: The average 20-year-old knows between 27,000 and 52,000 different words., The brain has to quickly decide which word matches the signal it receives., The brain accesses multiple possible meanings of a word before fully identifying it., False: By age 60, the number of words known averages between 45,000 and 60,000., Spoken words typically last longer than a second., The brain chooses the correct word about 90% of the time., Speech comprehension is similar to reading comprehension but not to sign language comprehension., Each word we know is represented by a single processing unit in the brain., When we hear the beginning of a word, only one processing unit becomes active., The recognition point is when multiple firing patterns are active.,

How the brain processes language

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