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on April 17, 2022

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Brain and Language: 1. The Human Brain : The brain is the most complex organ of the body. The surface of the brain is the cortex, often called “gray matter,” consisting of billions of neurons (nerve cells) and glial cells (which support and protect the neurons). The cortex is the decision-making organ of the body. It receives messages from all of the sensory organs, initiates all voluntary and involuntary actions, and is the storehouse of our memories and the seat of our consciousness. It is the organ that most distinguishes humans from other animals. Somewhere in this gray matter resides the grammar that represents our knowledge of language. The brain is composed of a right and a left cerebral hemisphere, joined by the corpus callosum, a network of more than 200 million fibers. 2. The Localization of Language in the Brain: In the early 19th century, Franz Joseph Gall proposed the localization theory, which is the idea that different cognitive a...

Discussion Questions

1. What does neurolinguistics study? It studies the biological and neural foundations of language. 2. What is the connection between the left hemisphere with the right hemisphere? The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left side. If you point with your right hand, the left hemisphere is responsible for its action. Similarly, sensory information from the right side of the body (for example, right ear, right hand, right visual field) is received by the left hemisphere of the brain, and sensory input to the left side of the body is received by the right hemisphere. This is known as contralateral brain function. 3. What is and who proposed the theory of localization? In the early nineteenth century, Franz Joseph Gall proposed the localization theory, which is the idea that different human cognitive abilities and behaviors are localiz...

Reflections

It was pretty interesting doing all this work and reading about the topic, definetly the thing that really caught my attention is knowing each functions of the brain, how it works a split brain and what we are capable to do without the half of our brains. ~ José Osorio I really liked this project because in it we can see our capacity when it comes to being creative, we also see that such is working as a team, we learn how important communication and understanding is with other colleagues. I can say that when it comes to dividing the work each one chose in what had a greater capacity, thus being able to give the best of each one to perform an excellent task. I must admit that I have chosen an excellent team to work with and I would certainly choose it again. I also recognized the importance of our brain, since in it all our learning is stored and how it is divided into two hemispheres and each one has a special function. ~ Katya Rivera. I really liked doing this blog ...

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