After a stroke, there is an increased risk of suffering a second one. Until now, it was unclear whether the brain is able to recover after a second attack, and whether the activation of the right hemisphere areas is supportive for the regeneration at all. Scientists at MPI CBS now found an answer by using virtual lesions.
A brain imaging study of humans, apes and monkeys by scientists from Newcastle University and Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences published in Nature Neuroscience reports the discovery of an earlier evolutionary origin to the human language pathway and sheds new light on its remarkable transformation.
Language is our everyday tool. We chat, listen, discuss, write, think and formulate the whole day. Nevertheless, little is known so far about this natural given and still highly complex ability. Which speed rate is the best so that the other one picks up the most content? Why is language built as it is? And what happens when one of the crucial…