Wernicke's area Research Articles

Adult-Child Conversations Strengthen Language Regions of Developing Brain

Neuroscience NewsAugust 14, 2018

Researchers report the greater conversational turn taking between adults and children, the stronger the connections are between the Wernicke's area and Broca's area in the child's brain. ... Read More...

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Image shows a little girl in headphones sitting on an MRI scanner bed.

Language Characterizes Humans

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 21, 2016

From babbling to complex sentences, researchers delve into how our ability to produce and understand language makes us humans unique.... Read More...

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This image shows the location of the Wernicke's area in the brain.

Remapping the Brain’s Language Area

Neuroscience NewsJune 25, 2015

New dementia research comes up with new locations for words and sentence comprehension in the brain.... Read More...

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Two brain images are shown side by side with Wernicke's area highlighted.

Research Reveals How the Human Brain Adapts to Injury

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 16, 2013

Scientists used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover how the human brain adapts to injury. The research shows that when one brain area loses functionality, a back-up team of secondary brain areas immediately activates, replacing not only the unavailable area but also its confederates.... Read More...

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Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain’s Speech Processing Center

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 30, 2012

New location of critical area provides hints on origin of language.Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brai... Read More...

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News

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Neuroscience

How emotions are mapped in the brain

Optical stimulation causes marmosets to move their forelimbs

What goes up may actually be down

Neurology

Certain personality traits in high school may lower dementia risk five decades later

Unexpected connection between gliomas and neurodegenerative diseases

Living near major roads linked to risk of dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and MS

AI

A rat had basically no brain, but it could still see, hear, smell, and feel

Google and Janelia researchers unveil biggest, most detailed map of the fly brain to date

The way you dance is unique, and computers can tell it’s you

Robotics

Findings about sea star locomotion could aid in development of simpler, decentralized systems in robotics

The first living robots

Psychology

How emotions are mapped in the brain

What goes up may actually be down

Horror movies manipulate brain activity expertly to enhance excitement

Wernicke’s area

Adult-Child Conversations Strengthen Language Regions of Developing Brain

Language Characterizes Humans

Remapping the Brain’s Language Area

Research Reveals How the Human Brain Adapts to Injury

Researchers Rewrite Textbook on Location of Brain’s Speech Processing Center