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More brain for language

a new language area has been identified in the brain following a study conducted by researchers at the Neuroimaging Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London.

Named "Geschwind's territory' after the American neurologist who first suggested its existence in the 1960s, this is the third area in the brain to be associated with language. Its presence was revealed through the powerful new brain scanning technique, the diffusion tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging, according to a study published in Annals of Neurology (Vol 57, No 1).

Till now, the language network of the brain was believed to consist of two areas

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