"By bridging independent efforts from around the world we hope to make an important advancement in confronting language endangerment, " said Rodriguez and Rissman.

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The UCLA team involved in this study Castel, Michael Cohen, Jesse Rissman, Barbara Knowlton and Aimee Drolet are using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to examine value-directed remembering by studying blood flow to different regions in the brain.

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