The source of it was a reflection by Ludwig Wittgenstein on the functions of words within language.

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That's because the right side of the brain can take over some language functions.

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Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.

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Under , the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 Bord na Gaidhlig was required to prepare and submit to Scottish ministers a national Gaelic language plan which must include proposals as to the exercise of its functions under that Act.

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The mechanism behind this bias appears to be located in a specific part of the brain, the left inferior frontal gyrus, which is involved in language, among other functions.

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