Science news articles about 'language areas'

  • New analysis reveals clearer picture of brain's language areas

    ... . Although some brain regions are known to be associated with language, neuroscientists have had a surprisingly difficult time using brain imaging technology to understand exactly what these ‘language areas` are doing. In a new study published ...
  • New analysis reveals clearer picture of brain’s language areas

    ... . Although some brain regions are known to be associated with language, neuroscientists have had a surprisingly difficult time using brain imaging technology to understand exactly what these 'language areas' are doing. Neuroscientists now report ...
  • Do bilingual persons have distinct language areas in the brain?

    ... are represented. Many studies have found evidence that all the languages that we acquire in the course of our life are represented in one area of the brain. However ... in this direction, particularly considering that it deals with unique languages that have not yet been studied and which are phonetically, morphologically and syntactically ...
  • Brain probes map language area

    Researchers have used a rare surgical procedure to map the part of the human brain associated with processing language, including grammar and speech.
  • Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research

    ... in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal areas, the long-recognized language regions of the brain. "If gesture ... adapted for using words," he said. "If the theory is correct, our language areas may actually be the remnant of this ancient communication ...
  • New Analysis Reveals Clearer Picture of Brain's Language Areas

    ... to analyze brain imaging data - one that may paint a clearer picture of how our brain produces and understands language ...
  • New invention at the Weizmann Institute

    ... a significant overlap between soft palate control and the language areas of the brain, hinting to the scientists that the use of sniffing ... the device's developers the opportunity to create a complex 'language' with multiple signals. The new system is relatively ...
  • Communication engages complex brain circuitry and processes

    ... that: The network of brain connections vital to understanding language is more extensive than previously thought. Researchers identified new speech-related pathways by mapping language areas in the brains of people with and without ...
  • Babies process language in a grown-up way

    ... into the process used by adults. Determining the areas of the brain responsible for learning language, however, has been hampered by a lack ... frontal regions are initially critical for language, and that classical language areas of adulthood become dominant ...
  • The brain as a 'task machine'

    ... . "Its specific anatomical location and its strong connectivity to language areas enable it to bridge high-level perceptual word representation and language-related components of reading," they wrote. "It is therefore ...
  • Brain doesn't need vision at all in order to 'read' material

    ... . "Its specific anatomical location and strong connectivity to language areas enable it to bridge a high-level perceptual word representation and language-related components of reading," they said. "It is therefore the most suitable ...
  • MIT-- parts of brain can switch functions

    ... to linguistic information as classic language areas such as Broca's and Wernicke's areas. They found that was indeed the case — visual ... that the human brain needs Broca's and Wernicke's areas for language. "We haven't shown that every ...
  • Weaker brain 'sync' may be early sign of autism

    ... of Medicine, and colleagues in Israel and Pittsburgh report that language areas located in the right and left sides ... also tell us that significant differences in the biology of language areas are apparent during very early ...
  • Localizing language in the brain

    ... brain activity. This way, they establish where the language areas lie in that individual subject, so ... will test the newly identified language areas with even more non-language tasks to see if their functional ...
  • The Twitter gene: FOXP2

    ... : 607,463 base pairsRole: Speech and language developmentSite of action: Mostly in the brain, but also in the heart, lungs ... . Yet something as simple as a tweet requires the language areas of our brains to fit together words ...

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