what explains the phenomenon where a words starts to sound weird after you say it a bunch, or like a nose starts to look odd if you really look at it, when most of the time you notice anything abnormal?

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what explains the phenomenon where a words starts to sound weird after you say it a bunch, or like a nose starts to look odd if you really look at it, when most of the time you notice anything abnormal?

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The phenomenon is known as semantic satiation and we don’t really know what actually causes it but it has been theorized to be related to the brain reducing the intensity of the process that connects sounds to their meaning when repeated.

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