April 28, 2016
This is your brain on stories. By tracking the blood flow in people’s brains as they listened to a storytelling radio show, scientists at UC Berkeley have mapped out where the meanings associated with basic words are encoded in the cortex, creating the first semantic atlas of the brain.
The findings, described in the journal Nature, provide an unprecedented view of language and meaning as it plays out on our neural terrain, and could potentially offer a road map for those looking to help patients with certain types of aphasia or other neurological disorders.
Read more from Los Angeles Times | April 28, 2016: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-brain-atlas-language-20160427-story.html