What’s happening when someone wakes up from surgery/a coma/head injury and knows a different language? How would it be possible for someone to materialize knowledge of all that vocabulary, and sentence structure?

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What’s happening when someone wakes up from surgery/a coma/head injury and knows a different language? How would it be possible for someone to materialize knowledge of all that vocabulary, and sentence structure?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Knowing a different language after head injury isn’t a thing.

However, there’s a REALLY rare phenomenon where people suddenly develop a new accent after a neurological event. It’s called Foreign Accent Syndrome.