Human language is key to our understanding of the world, and an essential window into cognitive and neurological processes. Using the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment, a recent study investigated the plasticity of the human language system, asking: Has the pandemic also changed how we understand language?
Researchers show lasting effects of COVID-19 pandemic on language processing and lexical knowledge
Human language is key to our understanding of the world, and an essential window into cognitive and neurological processes. Using the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment, a recent study investigated the plasticity of the human language system, asking: Has the pandemic also changed how we understand language?