They are meant to treat memory, thinking,language,judgment and other brain activity.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

There seems to be no interesting difference between how the brain comes to acquire and use the spoken language versus a sign language.

似乎大脑在如何获得和使用口语语言,与如何获得和使用手语之间,不存在任何的差别

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And part of the claim is that learning a language, learning to speak, reconfigures the human brain in such a way that is really exceptional.

这个观点的部分内容是,学习语言,学习说话,会以一种特殊的方式重新构建人类大脑

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But while Harris is in hospital, she is also helping scientists understand how the brain comprehends and uses language.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

It's like the part of the brain that's responsible for language learning is only around early in development and if you don't get your language by then it'll just run out.

就好像负责语言学习的大脑区域,只是在发展的早期比较活跃,如果你没有在这个时候获得语言,那你就没有机会了

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It attacks the brain's nerve cells, robs memory and impairs thinking and language skills.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

And if parts of these brains--if parts -if these parts of the brain are damaged you get language deficits or aphasias where you might lose the ability to understand or create language.

如果这些脑区,如果这些脑区受到损伤,那就会患上各种语言障碍或失语症,就是说可能会失去理解或创造语言的能力

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"I still get seizures. So now,when they remove the part that the seizure is triggered from, (it's supposed to stop.") While Harris is in hospital, she is helping scientists understand how the brain comprehends and uses language.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

If you want to know which part of your brain is responsible for language, you could put somebody into a scanner and have them exposed to language or do a linguistic task or talk or something and then see what parts of their brain are active.

如果你想知道大脑的哪个区域,负责语言功能,你可以对被试进行扫描,让他们暴露在语言环境中,或是进行语言学任务,或者聊天,然后观察他们的哪些脑区处于活跃状态

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