New location of brain's speech processing center provides hints on origin of language
Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain's cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received — a place famously known as Wernicke's area after the German neurologist who proposed this site in the late 1800s based on his study of brain injuries and strokes. Source: Georgetown University Medical Center - Discipline: Neuroscience...
Source: LabSpaces - Tuesday, 31 January
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