For example, hearing language about people tends to activate one area of the brain, about places in another, and about numbers in a third–demonstrating a basic organizing principle for how the ...

According to Altaic theory, Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu-Tungusic and Korean - some scholars also add Japanese to this family - all come from a common, hypothetical language, Altaic.

Studying the map reveals that at least a third of the brain's cerebral cortex is involved in processing language. The results also revealed that while everyone's brain is, of course, different ...

If you can't see the map above, click here. They report: "Today we are 5.7 percent of the world population. By 2030, 7.5 percent, and by 2050, if trends do not change, 10 percent of the planet ...

The map sheds light on the ways we process meaning through language, coloring parts of the brain in different shades depending on what kind of information they encode.

The hypothesis of an Altaic language family, comprising the Turkic, Monogolic, Tungusic, Korean and, in most recent versions, Japanese languages continues to be a viable linguistic proposal, despite ...