Professor Stephens believes that swearing activates a different part of the brain than normal language.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

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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how language affects the way our brain actually operates.

以及语言如何影响我们大脑的思维方式。

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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

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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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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(Talking) One of the study's author, Eric Halgren of the University of California,San Diego, School of Medicine, says this part of the brain is central to language.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

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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Using the process called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology, clinical tests in Boston and New York found that one small part of the brain, known as Broca's area, computes three different language functions, all within a quarter of a second.

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Well, the claim that language is part of human nature is supported by neurological studies, some of which were referred to in the chapters on the brain that you read earlier that talk about dedicated parts of the brain that work for language.

语言是人类本性的一部分的这个观点,得到了神经研究的支持,在之前大家阅读的关于大脑的章节中,对专门负责语言功能脑区的探讨,就描述了其中的一些研究

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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