Talking and Listening Processed in the Same Region of the Brain fMRI Reveals

Speaking and understanding speech share the same parts of the brain

ScienceDaily (2011-08-16) -- The brain has two big tasks related to speech: making it and understanding it. Psychologists and others who study the brain have debated whether these are really two separate tasks or whether they both use the same regions of the brain. Now, a new study finds that speaking and understanding speech share the same parts of the brain, with one difference: we don't need the brain regions that control the movements of lips, teeth, and so on to understand speech. ... > read full article