Why do we say “huh” as if we did not hear what the other person said, but it gets processed 2 seconds later?

Question

Why do we say “huh” as if we did not hear what the other person said, but it gets processed 2 seconds later?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Sometimes your brain will miss/garble a word in the beginning of the statement but can then correctly backfill it with the context.

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