Language "not confined to specific areas" of the brain

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Language "not confined to specific areas" of the brain

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So this article cropped up about this article which was published about a week ago in Nature. It challenges the notion that there is a specific area of the brain (or specific areas) where language is "stored". A neuroscientist at Stanford University said "these data suggest we need to rethink how the brain organizes meaning."

We edge ever closer to a deeper understanding of the brain and how our brains deal with language.
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Re: Language "not confined to specific areas" of the brain

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Interesting. So far, essentially all we knew about this stuff was what could be learnt from Wernicke's aphasia and Broca's aphasia, but I've always figured it was more complex than that.
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