Scientists show language connected to thought process

Scientists at Germany’s Max Planck Institute have linked the languages we speak with how we think, according to a new study. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Dr. Alfred Anwander, lead researcher behind the study, about the findings and specifically about the differences in the wiring of the language regions in the human brain.

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