Pickering, believe that the brain has one general 'underspecified' meaning for a polysemous word, which activates when it is perceived. By contrast, researchers such as Devorah E. Klein and Gregory L.

Researchers from the HSE School of Linguistics and the Centre for Language and Brain carried out an experiment to find out how language speakers perceive the different meanings, or senses, of ...

Her plea was to look beyond the literal meaning of the word. On the other hand, we come across polysemous words, words of many senses. With a wealth of words at your command one can handle dicey ...