Your Brain on Language: Is grammar inside my head? -- Linguistics & Logic 101

Our brains are fascinating places, but what do they have to do with the words and languages we speak? Is language and grammar inside our heads? Take a quick tour of the psychology and neurology of language to start answering that question. Along the way, you’ll learn about: - some brain basics - Broca’s area - Wernicke’s area - aphasia - locating “language centers“ of the brain - Brodmann areas - task-based brain research - brain linguistics: psycholinguistics & neurolinguistics - nativism & behaviorism