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Nouns and Verbs Are Learned in Different Parts of the Brain

Nouns and Verbs Are Learned in Different Parts of the Brain

ScienceDaily (February 25, 2010) — [EXCERPT] "Two Spanish psychologists and a German neurologist have recently shown that the brain that activates when a person learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is learned. The scientists observed this using brain images taken using functional magnetic resonance, according to an article they have published this month in the journal NeuroImage."

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