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Language lives across a connected left-hemisphere network

Language lives across a connected left-hemisphere network

Language lives across a connected left-hemisphere network

Speaking and understanding lean on linked regions often labeled Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas, plus pathways that shuttle signals between them.

Damage to different nodes can spare words but break grammar, or leave fluent speech emptied of meaning.

Talk is teamwork. A sentence is a relay race across cortex, not a single language “box.”

Shahzad Mahota Shahzad Mahota @shahzad-mahota

Language lives across a connected left-hemisphere network