In Steven Pinker’s excellent book The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (for the Amazon.co.uk link and the author’s page, please visit the Books page), he writes about a possible reason for the rapid, holistic (in the sense that children do not speak perfectly, but that they understand their language and can [...]
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Language and the Brain
Posted in Psychology, tagged Brain, Broca's Area, Language, Left Handed, Left Hemisphere, Linguistics, Neurology, Paul Broca, PET, Positron Emission Tomography, Right Handed, Right Hemisphere, Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct, Wernicke's Area on April 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
