{"id":2165,"date":"2023-03-29T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2023-03-29T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T19:54:32","slug":"your-native-language-may-shape-the-wiring-of-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2165","title":{"rendered":"Your native language may shape the wiring of your brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-84-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2166\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-84-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2166\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A new study of structural brain scans suggests that your brain wiring is strongly shaped by your native language.\u00a0(Image credit: \u00a9 MPI CBS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A person&#8217;s native language may shape how their brain builds connections between different hubs of information processing, a new brain scan study reveals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The observed differences in these language network structures were related to linguistic characteristics in the native languages of the study participants: German and Arabic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So the difference we find there shouldn&#8217;t be due to different ethnic background but really because of the language we [they] speak,&#8221;\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs.mpg.de\/employees\/anwander\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Alfred Anwander<\/u><\/a>(opens in new tab), a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany who led the study, told Live Science. The research was published online in February in the journal\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1053811923001015?via%3Dihub#bib0071\" target=\"_blank\"><u>NeuroImage<\/u><\/a>(opens in new tab).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/your-native-language-may-shape-the-wiring-of-your-brain\">https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/your-native-language-may-shape-the-wiring-of-your-brain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The connections between different regions of the brain responsible for language processing depend on which language you grew up with. A person&#8217;s native language may shape how their brain builds connections between different hubs of information processing, a new brain scan study reveals.&nbsp; The observed differences in these language network structures were related to linguistic characteristics in the native languages of the study participants: German and Arabic.&nbsp; &#8220;So the difference we find there shouldn&#8217;t be due to different ethnic background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}