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Language and Your Brain

For centuries, researchers have studied the brain to find exactly where mechanisms for producing and interpreting language reside. Theories abound on how humans acquire new languages and how our developing brains learn to process languages.

By Voxy.

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Pretty cool graphic but it does perpetuate an incorrect idea that language is a mono-hemispheric process.

Actually language is really a global process. While most people’s “language centers” with the most activity are on the left side, you activate multiple areas of the brain to understand and produce language.

For example, you activate your occipital cortex when speaking or listening because you’re visualizing what you’re saying or hearing.

Language is a global process. It requires the parts of your brain that are regimented and orderly, the parts that are creative, the parts that are for seeing and hearing and moving and feeling.

That’s why language is awesome. :)

#CogSciMajorOut