Interesting Facts About Brain

Language
The study of how language is represented and processed by the brain is neurolinguistics. This field originated from the 19th-century discovery that damage to different parts of the brain appeared to cause different symptoms: physicians noticed that individuals with damage to a brain region now known as Broca's area had difficulty in producing language, whereas those with damage to a region now known as Wernicke's area had difficulty in understanding it. Since then, there has been substantial debate over what processes these and other parts of the brain subserve, and over whether or not there even is a strong one-to-one relationship between brain regions and language functions.
More recently, much research on language has also used more modern methods (particularly electrophysiology and functional neuroimaging, as described above) to examine how language processing occurs in people without brain damage or other impairments.