Mother Tongue One Never Forgets

Jan 7, 2016 by

Mother Tongue One Never Forgets

[Many thanks to Leni Silberman for drawing my attention to the ScienceAlert article that describes the study discussed below!]   A growing body of linguistic literature, to which I have made a modest contribution (cf. Pereltsvaig...

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Is There a Language-Area of the Brain?—And Moro’s Experiments about Re...

Oct 22, 2015 by

Is There a Language-Area of the Brain?—And Moro’s Experiments about Real and “Fake” Italian

Russian neurolinguist and experimental psychologist Tatiana Chernigovskaya has recently given a public lecture “How the internet changed our brain”. (Thanks to Inna Louneva for drawing my attention to this lecture.) A transcript of...

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Rethinking the Role of Broca’s Area—Or Did We?

Feb 22, 2015 by

A recent article “Brain’s iconic seat of speech goes silent when we actually talk”, published in Science Daily online on February 18, 2015, reviews the research of a team of scientists from New York University, the Helen Wills...

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