Sign language study shows multiple brain regions wired for language

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 17:40 in Biology & Nature

A new study finds that there is no single advanced area of the human brain that gives it language capabilities above and beyond those of any other animal species. Instead, humans rely on several regions of the brain, each designed to accomplish different primitive tasks, in order to make sense of a sentence.

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