Word: brained
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...Gmail, the Googlers have made their newest product invitation-only. You can't just use Google Wave; you have to be chosen. It's like Willy Wonka and the golden ticket. By the time I finally got my Wave invitation, I actually felt grateful. In some part of my brain, I really believed that instead of using a browser-based communications app, I was attending a totally excellent party...
Researchers at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a small region of the brain that has been predominantly associated with language production, is also responsible for language comprehension—blurring the lines on what has been a fundamental concept in psychology...
...their study, researchers focused on three epilepsy patients undergoing the rare procedure Intra-Cranial Electrophysiology, in which electrodes are implanted into the brain to gauge which regions are responsible for causing epileptic seizures...
During this study—the first to use ICE to study how the brain interprets grammatical rules and produces word—researchers had the patients read a series of words and then reproduce them in different grammatical forms: for example, the inversion of a noun into a plural, or the conversion of a verb into the past tense...
Researchers found that three different linguistic computations—lexical (recognizing the word), phonetic (articulating the word), and grammatical (converting the word to a plural or past tense)—all occurred within small regions of Broca’s area. Brain activity indicating the computations occurred at roughly 200, 320, and 450 milliseconds after the word was presented to the patient...