Nouns, Verbs Memorized In Different Brain Regions

Nouns, Verbs Memorized In Different Brain RegionsReseachers have recently exposed that the brain's region, which gets actuated when someone learns a new noun is different from the part used when a verb is memorized.

Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, psychologist from the University of Barcelona, along with Anna Mestres-Misse, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, and neurologist Thomas F. M? nte from the Otto-von-Guericke University in Germany, have established neural (nerve cell) disparities in the brain's map when an individual memorizes new nouns and verbs.

The group recognized that lots of patients with brain damage show disassociation in treating these types of words, and that kids study nouns before verbs. Grownups also perform better and respond quicker to nouns during cognitive examinations.

Based on these thoughts, scientists prepared a trial to verify whether these differences could be found in the brain.

They set people an examination to study new nouns and verbs, and registered their neuronic responses by making use of functional MRI. This method makes it possible to study how parts of the brain actuate while a person is accomplishing a specific task.

Parttakers had to study 80 new nouns and 80 new verbs. By doing this, the brain imaging indicated that novel nouns and new verbs actuated various regions of the brain.

These results were issued in NeuroImage. (With Input from Agencies)