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Waking Up With A Foreign Accent
A rare brain disorder can entirely change the way you speak.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 8 min.
How Humans Speak and Mice Learn: The Widespread Effects of FOXP2
Though mice don't use verbal language like we do, they still find a way to communicate.
  • Knowing Neurons
Can Special Fonts Help People With Dyslexia?
A typeface seeks to ease some of the challenges people with dyslexia face when reading.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Roundup: Birdsong and Human Speech
Learn what some species of songbird have taught us about vocal and motor learning.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Waking Up With A Foreign Accent
A rare brain disorder can entirely change the way you speak.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 8 min
Learning About Language From Birdsong
Songbirds are one of the few known species who learn to speak (or sing) like we do. That makes them the perfect case study to learn about the origins of language in the brain.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 5 min
Talking Sense
When you talk with a friend, there is a separate conversation going on in your brain.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
How Does Language Work?: A Classroom Presentation
Why are birds used to study language? Where is language located in the brain? Help your students answer these questions and more with this classroom presentation.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
Aphasia: The Disorder That Makes You Lose Your Words
If the delicate web of language networks in your brain became disrupted by stroke, illness, or trauma, you could find yourself truly at a loss for words.
  • TED
  • 5 min
Language and the Brain
This infographic will help your students see language.
  • Voxy
The Brain Prize Presents: Stanislas Dehaene
When we read, our brains transform the shapes of letters and characters on a page into the sounds of spoken language. But how does the brain do this?
  • The Brain Prize
  • 8 min
Your Babbling Brain
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. Learn more in this video which took second place in the 2016 Brain Awareness Video Contest.
  • BrainFacts/SfN
  • 5 min
Struggling to Speak: The Brain Map of Patient Tan
A man who could only speak a single syllable taught us all about the complicated brain functions behind language.
  • BrainFacts/SfN

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