Your Babbling Brain

  • Published1 Sep 2016
  • Reviewed2 Sep 2016
  • Source BrainFacts/SfN

A conversation with a friend may feel effortless but your brain is hard at work listening to your friend, deciding how to respond, and selecting the words to use. Much of what neuroscientists know about how the brain processes language comes from studies of people who have lost the ability to understand or produce language. Learn more in this video which took second place in the 2016 Brain Awareness Video Contest.

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