Do different languages light up different neurons for the same concept ? Do clusters of neurons correspond to a certain thought?
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Yes, I recently read a research article and would love to link it if I can find it again. They took people from several dozen languages and put them in FMRI machines (brain scanners) and showed that the same regions lit up when talking about stuff in all the different languages. I wouldn’t go as far as to say a specific cluster of neurons is sitting there waiting to be responsible for one specific thing though. There are people who have had brain injuries or were just missing sections of their brain, so a different part of their brain stored the information. Your brain is an interconnected web or relating things to other things to think and learn all knew things. When you get down to a small enough size the same cluster of cells isn’t always going to be responsible for the same exact thing.
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