Do we need words to think? For centuries, philosophers and linguists have leaned toward yes, the idea that language is the scaffolding of reasoning itself. A new study from MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research says otherwise: logical reasoning and... Continue Reading →
Nerve cells in the brain region planum temporale have more synapses in the left hemisphere than in the right hemisphere – which is vital for rapid processing of auditory speech, according to the report published by researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum... Continue Reading →
An international research team led by Carnegie Mellon University has found that when the brain “reads” or decodes a sentence in English or Portuguese, its neural activation patterns are the same. Published in NeuroImage, the study is the first to... Continue Reading →