Pioneering study maps attention, memory and language links in the human brain

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University of Arizona neuroscientist Thomas A. Christensen is mapping areas and networks within the human brain involved in listening and analyzing spoken language. Credit: Lori Stiles University of Arizona
University of Arizona neuroscientist Thomas A. Christensen is mapping areas and networks within the human brain involved in listening and analyzing spoken language. Credit: Lori Stiles, University of Arizona

A University of Arizona scientist who has specialized in studying how fireflies and other creatures communicate has won a million-dollar grant to conduct a pioneering 5-year study on the roles that attention and memory play when the human brain hears and processes spoken language.


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