Are there any pairs of words that you constantly get confused? They’re the ones where you have to think for a second to get them straight.
Why do our brains have this problem? What about these words makes them so confusable?
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Show notes
The Facebook thread
https://www.facebook.com/talkthetalkpodcast/photos/a.526015844091879/3369916346368467/?type=3&theater
Why Do I Confuse Left and Right? | Psychology Today Australia
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-asymmetric-brain/201903/why-do-i-confuse-left-and-right
Why some people have trouble telling left from right (and why it’s so important)
https://theconversation.com/why-some-people-have-trouble-telling-left-from-right-and-why-its-so-important-38325
Rightleft Discrimination in Male and Female, Young and Old Subjects: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology: Vol 24, No 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1076/jcen.24.1.82.966#.VQF-1vmsV1Y
Why can’t my brain easily distinguish the words “orange” and “green”? : neuro
https://www.reddit.com/r/neuro/comments/n0tjr/why_cant_my_brain_easily_distinguish_the_words/
A Look At Some Commonly Confused Words | Lexico
https://www.lexico.com/grammar/commonly-confused-words
geography – How to easily remember orientation of latitude and longitude? – Earth Science Stack Exchange
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/9642/how-to-easily-remember-orientation-of-latitude-and-longitude
Psychology suggests that when someone calls you the wrong name, it’s because they love you
https://qz.com/909209/psychology-suggests-that-when-someone-calls-you-the-wrong-name-its-because-they-love-you/
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