Friday, October 16, 2009

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HTTP:: Wired Brain Reveals Speech Processing
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A group of scientists has recently taken a new, high-resolution set of readouts on the human brain, collected directly from the cortex via wires implanted in the brain. The initiative has provided the scientists with an unprecedented look at how language processing functions, and has also evidenced the fact that parts of the processing center are also involved in multi-tasking. The data has been collected from the brains of patients suffering from epilepsy, Wired reports. “If the same part of the brain does different things at different times, that’s a thunderously complex level of organization,” University of California in San Diego (UCSD) cognitive scientist Ned Sahin says. He has been the leader of the research team that has analyzed a brain region known as Broca’s center, which was known for a long time to be involved in speech and language. The region draws its name from French anatomist Paul Pierre Broca. Details of the investigation appear in the Thursday e!
dition of the top journal Science. In 1865, Broca was the first to observe that people with damage to this region of the brain lost their ability to speak, but were still able to think and exhibited little other side-effects. Other scientific studies, carried out to test and prove Broca's research, showed pretty much the same t...
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