Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Language Develops With the Brain
Authors
Brauer, Jens
Departments
Neuropsychologie (Prof. Dr. Angela Friederici)
MPI für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften, Leipzig
Summary
Language is a basic property of human beings that distinguishes them from any other being we know. Children seem to effortlessly acquire this complex system of symbols and meanings. It is still an open question how children’s brains learn to administer the multifaceted tasks involved in language comprehension. Answers to this question are given by imaging methods that allow us to observe the children’s brains during the processing of language.