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Language in the Brain

What do We Know About Its Organization, and How has Neuroimaging Improved Our Understanding?

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Soft Computing Applications (SOFA 2020)

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On a daily basis, a human being relies on the ability to perceive, recognize, interpret and reproduce a stream of speech. The language is biologically encoded in our brain since the day we are born. Described briefly as the exchange of thoughts, ideas and knowledge, language was difficult to be precisely localized within the brain for many years. The most important areas of the brain involved in the speech and language systems in the brain have been researched and discussed starting with patients whose brain was damaged and the main effects were speech problems in talking or in comprehension of the speech. Definitions of language, descriptions of functionality and as accurate as can be spoken organization of the main systems within the human brain have been tried to be let in the research field. Looking back in the literature, we can see that the most important role in this field is taken by the latest neuroimaging methods developed over the years and which helped researchers in exploring and mapping the brain.

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  1. Department of Computers, Electronics and Automation, Stefan cel Mare University, 720229, Suceava, Romania

    Diana-Roxana Izdrui

  2. Neuroaestheticslab, Stefan cel Mare University, 720229, Suceava, Romania

    Oana Geman

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina Emilia Balas

  2. Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Marius Mircea Balas

  4. Cankaya University, Ankara, Türkiye

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Izdrui, DR., Geman, O. (2023). Language in the Brain. In: Balas, V.E., Jain, L.C., Balas, M.M., Baleanu, D. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1438. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23636-5_9

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