Brain

How our brain produces language and thought, according to neuroscientists

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For thousands of years, philosophers have debated the purpose of language. Plato believed it was essential to thinking. Thought “is the silent interior conversation of the soul with itself,” he wrote. Many modern scholars have advanced similar views. Beginning in the 1960s, Noam Chomsky, a linguist at MIT, argued that we use language for reasoning … Read more

New study suggests universal laws governing brain structure from mice to men

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Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered that structural features of the brain are nearing a critical point similar to a phase transition, observed in species as diverse as humans, mice and fruit flies. This discovery suggests that a universal principle may guide the structure of the brain, which may inspire new computational models to mimic … Read more