[Edling] Your Brain Wires itself to Match Your Native Language

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

Science News

Your Brain Wires itself to Match Your Native Language

German and Arabic native speakers have different connection strengths in
specific parts of the brain’s language circuit, researchers report February
19 in NeuroImage, hinting that the cognitive demands of our native
languages physically shape the brain. The new study, based on nearly 100
brain scans, is one of the first in which scientists have identified these
kinds of structural wiring differences in a large group of monolingual
adults.

Full story:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-wires-native-language-neurons
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