Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain

Neuroscientists have debated for centuries whether some regions of the human brain are selectively engaged in specific high-level mental functions or whether, instead, cognition is implemented in multifunctional brain regions. For the critical case of language, conflicting answers arise from the neu...

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Main Authors: Fedorenko, Evelina G. (Contributor), Behr, Michael K. (Contributor), Kanwisher, Nancy (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2012-04-19T18:07:12Z.
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