Brain areas involved in language

Lecture Introduction to linguistics: Language and brain. In this chapter, students will be able to understand: Language and brain, the structure of the brain, brain areas involved in language, language disorders, aphasia.

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The diagnosis? Eye-ear dissociation. The cause? Inappropriate training of the auditory brain cortex (see the previous Listening chapter). People can be perfect readers, but, at the same time, poor listeners. (The contrary – the ears understand, but the eyes cannot read – exists too: illiteracy.) To neuroscientists, this is not surprising; eyes and ears are different entry ports for distinct elaboration and storage sites in the brain. Training the visual brain areas at the back of the head (see Figure 3.3) has little influence on the performance of the auditory brain areas.

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