Wednesday 5 May 2010

Multiple Brain Regions Wired For Language

A new study by scientists of the University of Rochester and Dalhousie University finds there is no single advanced area of the human brain that makes it suited to parse language. Instead, humans rely on several regions, each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks, in order to make sense of a sentence.

Depending on the type of grammar used in forming a given sentence, the brain will activate a certain set of regions to process it, like a carpenter digging through a toolbox to select the right set of tools for the job.

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