{"id":142681,"date":"2022-07-23T00:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/universal-language-network-identified-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2022-07-23T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T05:22:48","slug":"universal-language-network-identified-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/universal-language-network-identified-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Universal language network\u2019 identified in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universal-language-network-identified-in-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This network had mostly been studied in English speakers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian, Swahili, Tagalog and dozens of other spoken languages cause the same \u201cuniversal language network\u201d to light up in the brains of native speakers. This hub of language processing has been studied extensively in English speakers, but now neuroscientists have confirmed that the exact same network is activated in speakers of 45 different languages representing 12 distinct language families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study is very foundational, extending some findings from English to a broad range of languages,\u201d senior author Evelina Fedorenko, an associate professor of neuroscience at MIT and a member of MIT\u2019s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, said in a statement (opens in new tab).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This network had mostly been studied in English speakers. Japanese, Italian, Ukrainian, Swahili, Tagalog and dozens of other spoken languages cause the same \u201cuniversal language network\u201d to light up in the brains of native speakers. This hub of language processing has been studied extensively in English speakers, but now neuroscientists have confirmed that the exact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}