Like radar, a brain wave sweeps a cortical region to read out information held in working memory
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Trains move through the world’s subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and repeated by other trains throughout the day. A new study by a team of NYU psychology and linguistics researchers finds that our brains work much the same way when processing several words at once—as we routinely do when listening to others speak.
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