Breakthrough in understanding the origins of language
Monday, August 31, 2015 - 08:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the "Cognitive Neuroimaging" unit at NeuroSpin have identified a network of brain regions whose organisation may at least partly explain the specificity of the cognitive functions of the human species. These regions are specifically activated in humans but not in macaques, in response to specific changes in a series of recorded auditory sequences.