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What have studies of people with brain damage injury and/or neuroimaging studies told us about the neuropsychology of language?
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What have studies of people with brain damage injury and/or neuroimaging studies told us about the neuropsychology of language? Language is unique among mental functions in that only humans truly possess a language system, and it is one of the most fundamental ways in which humanity excels. Language is second nature to humans we do not really have any conscious thought about how to express it, it just happens. However language is a highly complex system and involves many aspects including representation, comprehension and communication via symbolic information. It has now been known for over a century that the regions surrounding the Sylvian fissure of the dominant left hemisphere play a key role in language (Eysenck and Keane 2000). However new findings from patients with brain lesions and from neuroimaging studies in un-impaired subjects are giving us a deeper insight into the relationship between language and the brain and are...
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