Saturday, October 17, 2009

The speed of language

"After studying the readouts, the researchers found that in these normally reading adults, word identification, grammar and pronunciation all activated parts of Broca's area—and in a very neatly defined sequence. Like clockwork, it took about 200 milliseconds to identify a word, 320 milliseconds for grammatical composition and 450 milliseconds for phonological encoding."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=language-process-speed-location

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