New Language Area in the Brain Discovered Wow, this is awesome!!!!

 

Third Language Area in Brain Identified

 

MONDAY, Dec. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- British scientists say they've identified a third area of the brain involved in language, a finding that seems to confirm previous theories.

 

Until now, it was believed that just two brain areas handled language. One area produced language, another area was responsible for comprehension, and a dense bundle of nerve fibers linked the two areas.

 

However, some scientists suspected there was a third language area in the brain. In this study, researchers used diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging -- a more powerful version of standard MRI -- to identify this third area, which they dubbed Geschwind's territory.

 

The name honors American neurologist Norman Geschwind, who championed the idea of a third linguistic area decades ago.

 

The study appears in the current online edition of the Annals of Neurology.

 

"We were surprised that the two classical areas were densely connected to a third area, whose presence had already been suspected but whose connections with the classical network were unknown," study author Dr. Marco Catani, of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said in a prepared statement.

 

Geschwind's territory is a separate, roundabout route that connects the two classical areas, known as Broca's and Wernicke's areas, via a region of the parietal lobe of the cortex, the researchers said.

 

"There are clues that the parallel pathway network we found is important for the acquisition of language in childhood," Catani said.

 

"Geschwind's territory is the last area in the brain to mature, the completion of its maturation coinciding with the development of reading and writing skills. An important future line of study will be to examine the maturation of this area and its connections in the context of autism and dyslexia," Catani said.

 

More information

 

The U.S. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about language development.

 

Edit: here is the link that didn't come out: NIDCD

Edited December 14, 200421 yr by ChiSoxyGirl

I didn't even know I had one area for all this hehe

haha, when I saw the thread, I thought you were going to give me an explanation for why It seems I can never sell my textbooks back

 

But thats pretty cool stuff.

Tell me about it, I'm stuck with 16 books I'll never need.

Now I have an excuse as to why I don't learn anything.

The late ontogeny of the Geschwind's territory is particularly intriguinng, as it may go a long way toward explaining why many kids that are very competent oral communicators show delays when it comes to developing interest or capacity for reading and writing.

 

Oops, I mean... Stop usin' all them big wurds!

Tell me about it, I'm stuck with 16 books I'll never need.

Well, I just watched The Day After Tomorrow the other night, so after seeing that I would say to hang onto your books as they might come in REAL handy in the event of the next ice age. They saved Donnie Darko's life after all, so they should work out for you!

Well, I just watched The Day After Tomorrow the other night, so after seeing that I would say to hang onto your books as they might come in REAL handy in the event of the next ice age. They saved Donnie Darko's life after all, so they should work out for you!

lol I've always wanted to burn some of these books, so that will work out well.

lol I've always wanted to burn some of these books, so that will work out well.

When I graduated high school we had a huge ass bonfire and all of us burned our notebooks and books

The late ontogeny of the Geschwind's territory is particularly intriguinng, as it may go a long way toward explaining why many kids that are very competent oral communicators show delays when it comes to developing interest or capacity for reading and writing.

 

Oops, I mean... Stop usin' all them big wurds!

Yeah, I think this will be really interesting to see play out in the literature. I kind of wonder how Saffran and Chomskey will use this.

 

I have a feeling this might be the most interesting new debate of my young academic career.

Yeah, I think this will be really interesting to see play out in the literature. I kind of wonder how Saffran and Chomskey will use this.

 

I have a feeling this might be the most interesting new debate of my young academic career. 

 

Hey hey, get back on topic here, its fire not intellectual gibberish. FIRE!!!!

Hey hey, get back on topic here, its fire not intellectual gibberish. FIRE!!!!

"I don't know the scientific explanation, but... FIRE MADE IT GOOD!"

 

--Homer J. Simpson

Edited December 14, 200421 yr by FlaSoxxJim

Now I have an excuse as to why I don't learn anything.

Did we ever learn anything in HS? lol

im' leardning ab0t a lhott uf stuff

Did we ever learn anything in HS? lol

I learned to act dumb because being smart ain't cool in high school. I don't know if I'm acting anymore