How Brain Process a Language
Hey there, welcome to Life Noggin. I am speaking words right now and if you know English, you can understand what I'm saying. But, how? Well, sometimes in order to find out how a healthy brain works, we need to study a damaged one. Aphasia is a communication disorder that results from damage to the parts of the brain involved in language.
In the late 19th century, patients with Aphasia allowed scientists to better study how our brain processes and produces words and sentences. Through their studies, they found two main regions in the left hemisphere that were associated with language. Broca's area which is located in the left
frontal lobe is linked to speech production. Patients who have lesions in this area may understand what I am saying right now fairly well. But, would have a hard time forming sentences of their own.
On the other hand, Wernicke's area located in the temporal lobe is thought to be important in speech comprehension. If someone has damage in this area, they can produce language just fine, but
it would be a meaningless mismatch of words like "red bottle brushes hairy sky". But, this is just a classical model of language. So, there is bound to be a few flaws. Recent studies using imaging
techniques have shown that the regions around these two areas are also active
during language processing.
And even more, the right frontal lobe maybe involved in comprehending semantics or meaning of sentences. And there is still a lot that we don't even know about how the brain actually does all of this.However, it still begs the question, how are humans just able to understand language so easily?
Sure, learning a second language as an adult is pretty hard.But, it comes so naturally to children.
Well, the linguist Noam Chomsky believes that there is something called universal grammar. Meaning that there are elements of every known language that are similar like nouns, adjectives and verbs. And that young children are hard-wired to understand and learn language.
So, a lot of language and how we learn it is by association, but, it may also be innate. But, either way
I can send information from my brain to yours just by changing the shape of my vocal track. And that's pretty darn cool. So, what language would you like to learn? I would like to learn Italian so I can be super suave all the time.
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In the late 19th century, patients with Aphasia allowed scientists to better study how our brain processes and produces words and sentences. Through their studies, they found two main regions in the left hemisphere that were associated with language. Broca's area which is located in the left
frontal lobe is linked to speech production. Patients who have lesions in this area may understand what I am saying right now fairly well. But, would have a hard time forming sentences of their own.
On the other hand, Wernicke's area located in the temporal lobe is thought to be important in speech comprehension. If someone has damage in this area, they can produce language just fine, but
it would be a meaningless mismatch of words like "red bottle brushes hairy sky". But, this is just a classical model of language. So, there is bound to be a few flaws. Recent studies using imaging
techniques have shown that the regions around these two areas are also active
during language processing.
And even more, the right frontal lobe maybe involved in comprehending semantics or meaning of sentences. And there is still a lot that we don't even know about how the brain actually does all of this.However, it still begs the question, how are humans just able to understand language so easily?
Sure, learning a second language as an adult is pretty hard.But, it comes so naturally to children.
Well, the linguist Noam Chomsky believes that there is something called universal grammar. Meaning that there are elements of every known language that are similar like nouns, adjectives and verbs. And that young children are hard-wired to understand and learn language.
So, a lot of language and how we learn it is by association, but, it may also be innate. But, either way
I can send information from my brain to yours just by changing the shape of my vocal track. And that's pretty darn cool. So, what language would you like to learn? I would like to learn Italian so I can be super suave all the time.
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