How is it that people who suffer from amnesia retain the ability to comprehend and speak the language they did prior to the event that caused the amnesia?
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Different brain regions. Regions in your frontal, temporal and parietal lobes formulate what you want to say and the motor cortex allows you to say it. The hippocampus is responsible for some memory, specifically episodic memory. Although the type of amnesia often seen in daytime tv shows is extraordinarily rare.
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