Eli5 how does the brain store the meaning of words in your head?

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Does it link words to pictures in your mind? So there is a mapping from the word “owl” to a picture of an owl in your head?

Can I also add that I don’t think this mapping involves word definitions, so for example the word owl won’t map to the word definition of an owl since you need to define words in the definition itself. This causes a never ending chain as you keep having to define words in further definitions.

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I am helping a woman recouperate from a stroke that really hammered her language area (so she has Aphasia)…. and it is fascinating how her brain works I can see how it finds old memories and can’t form new ones and where connections are or are not made.

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