Why can some people speak dozens of languages? with Ev Fedorenko, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Is There a Relationship Between Language and Frontal Cortical Regions?
Language is typically in the left hemisphere, present more strongly in the left. And also social functions and wore strongly present in the right hemisphere. But an individual who will grow up without her temporal lobe has no responses to language anywhere in her perfectly healthy left frontal lobe. So maybe you need the temporal t frontal connections early on topin a wire up the frontal parts of the language system. One question that i think we can very interestingly address in the speculation is the relationship between language and social combinition.
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