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Scientists find neurons that process language on different timescales
MIT neuroscientists identified clusters of neurons that appear to respond to word strings of different lengths. These “temporal windows” range from just one word up to about six words.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), neuroscientists have identified several regions of the brain that are responsible for processing language. Fedorenko, who is also a member of MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research, is the senior author of the study, which appears today in Nature Human Behavior. Those data showed that in some neural populations in language processing regions, activity would gradually build up over a period of several words, when the participants were reading sentences.
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