Semantic satiation, where repetition of a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose meaning
The explanation for the phenomenon was that verbal repetition repeatedly aroused a specific neural pattern in the cortex which corresponds to the meaning of the word.
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Semantic satiation is used extensively in Tony Burgess' novel Pontypool Changes Everything, as well as in the film adaptation of the novel.
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