Neuroscience of Language and Language Recovery

 
 

  • The human brain has special organization for language, largely in the left hemisphere

  • We have learned more about the brain’s ability to understand and produce language by studying discourse (read more about my discourse work here)

  • Grammar appears to selectively involve specific areas of the left hemisphere

  • Making semantic word errors, like “dog” for “cat”, associate with different areas of damage (like after a stroke) compared to making sound errors, like saying “clog” instead of “dog”

Fig 3 from Matchin et al’s 2022 paper

From Stark et al’s Cortex paper

 

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