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stfu zojak
Jo-chueh
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| Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: Engage language x by shifting the brains Caudate? |
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This is interesting. This kind of explains how I feel when I'm stuck in some mental mode. Whether it's speaking a language or trying to kick my brain into high gear.
| Quote: | How bilingual brains switch between tongues
Now Cathy Price and her colleagues have combined brain scans with behavioural tests and discovered that the left caudate becomes more active as people shift from thinking in one language to another. This area is thought to influence how we articulate words in association with another brain structure known as the thalamus.
The research team recruited 35 bilingual people – 25 spoke German and English, 10 spoke Japanese and English. The participants viewed pairs of words while undergoing brain scans using either positron emission tomography (PET) or functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) imaging. |
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9304&feedId=online-news_rss20 |
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