Scientists have discovered how two distinct brain networks interact with one another to help us make meaning out of words and glean complex, higher-level meaning from sentences, like the one you're reading right now.
how neural circuits within those brain regions worked to help us make sense of words.
The team recorded participants' neural activity in real-time while they read three things: meaningful sentences; a list of words or pseudo words; and sentences that used correct grammar and syntax but were filled with made-up words, which the researchers called 'Jabberwocky' sentences. The first network involves the brain's frontal lobe sending signals to the temporal lobe. This network is activated as a person starts to figure out meaning as they move along a sentence.
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