When Words Aren’t Enough: Cognovi Labs Uncovers Underlying Emotions
Ironically, one of the most common phrases in any language must be, “you don’t understand what I’m saying.” While most of us, to a more or less degree, communicate most of the time to most people, breakdowns are evident everywhere. From dueling political parties, to parents and teenagers, language can seem more like a divisive factor rather than a way to share thoughts.
When you think about language comprehension, it’s a wonder that we understand each other at all. Communication 101 tells us that the process involves a sender-message-receiver, and if we reduce transmission noise all should be well. However, things are much more complicated than that when the sender and the receiver are human brains and the message is encoded in words. Language comprehension is an extremely complex process with many layers of interpretation.
