Word: brocaã
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...findings debunk the long-standing assumption that Broca??€™s area—which is commonly linked to language production—serves a completely distinct purpose from Wernicke’s area—the region responsible for language comprehension...
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...
...discovery that the computations occurred sequentially, all within about half a second of each other, refuted the idea that Broca??€™s region is only involved in language production...
Since different parts of language computation occur in different parts of the brain, the researchers plan to further investigate whether there is synchrony, or simultaneous electrical activity, in both Wernicke’s and Broca??€™s regions...
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