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Semantic Satiation is when repeating a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
 
Semantic Satiation is when repeating a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
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When the phenomenon of semantic satiation was first reported in the literature around the turn of the century by investigators working in Titchener's Laboratory (Severance & Washburn, 1907), it was described as a curious and isolated effect and referred to as "lapse of meaning."
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== See also ==
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* [http://philosophistry.com/archives/2009/01/what-is-semanti.html What is semantic satiation?]
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* [http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/leonj/499s99/yamauchi/semantic.htm SEMANTIC SATIATION AND COGNITIVE DYNAMICS]

Latest revision as of 15:26, 20 December 2012

Semantic Satiation is when repeating a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then processes the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

When the phenomenon of semantic satiation was first reported in the literature around the turn of the century by investigators working in Titchener's Laboratory (Severance & Washburn, 1907), it was described as a curious and isolated effect and referred to as "lapse of meaning."

See also