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Your native tongue holds a special place in your brain, even if you speak 10 languages // Science
Researchers from MIT and elsewhere studied the brains of individuals who speak multiple languages and uncovered how language-specific regions of the brain respond to different and familiar languages. They found “the activity in the brain’s language network fluctuated based on how well participants understood a language. The more familiar the language, the larger the response. There was one exception to the rule: When participants heard their native tongue, their language networks were actually quieter than when they heard other familiar languages.”
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