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Approaching the neuroscience of language

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Language enables humans to communicate, share ideas, and express feelings and emotions. When I approached the study of the relationship between language and the brain, I was fascinated by the brain’s wonderful and precisely orchestrated functioning.

Over the past two centuries, the neural correlates of language have been the focus of extensive research. Hickok and Poeppel’s dual stream framework of language perception left a mark in this field. Their 2004 paper also inspired me as an undergraduate student to pursue a doctoral programme.

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  • Hickok, G. & Poeppel, D. Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language. Cognition 92, 67–99 (2004)

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Marika Gobbo

  2. Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Udine, Udine, Italy

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Gobbo, M. Approaching the neuroscience of language. Nat Rev Psychol 3, 221 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00290-4

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