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?
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?