Brain Region Discovered That Only Processes Spoken, Not Written Words

25th March, 2019

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[Source: Medical X-Press]

Patients in a new Northwestern Medicine study were able to comprehend words that were written but not said aloud. They could write the names of things they saw but not verbalize them.

Even though these patients could hear and speak perfectly fine, a disease had crept into a portion of their brain that kept them from processing auditory words while still allowing

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