| The use of language with your brain involves five different areas. If you were to read a sentence out loud, the areas in your brain that would be used would be: the visual cortex, the angular gyrus, Wernicke’s area, Broca’s area, and finally the motor cortex. The first step lies with the visual cortex (in the occipital area). When you read aloud, the words register in the visual area as visual stimulation. Next, the angular gyrus (aqua) takes the visual representations and turns it into and auditory code that is then sent to Wernicke’s area (orange). This area receives and interprets the auditory code. Next is Broca’s area (light purple & yellow) which controls the speech muscles by the motor cortex (blue). Finally, the word is pronounced using the motor cortex. This five step process was developed by Norman Geschwind to explain how we use language (Myers 80-82). |
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Julia, Dovgy, widener, medical scholar
