Gestures Processed in Brain's Language Center »
Posted By Progressive 1 month ago in Science & TechnologySATURDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Words and gestures are processed in the same areas of the brain, a finding that may improve understanding of the evolution of language, researchers say.
Talking with your hands could be linked to evolution, research suggests. In the study, MRI was used to monitor the brain activity of 20 volunteers as they watched video clips of a person either acting out gestures or voicing phrases that matched the gestures' meanings. Both the gestures and words triggered high levels of activity in the inferior frontal and posterior temporal areas, which are the language regions of the brain.
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