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Chapter 12 Language and the brain description Language is brain stuff--not tongue, lip, ear, or hand stuff. The language organ is the mind. More specifically, the language faculty seems to be located in certain areas of the left hemispheric cortex in most healthy adults. A special branch of linguistics, called neurolinguistics, studies the physical structure of the brain as it relates to language production and comprehension. reflections Many people assume the physical basis of language lies in the lips, the tongue, or the ear. But deaf and mute people can also possess language fully. People who have no capacity to use their vocal cords may still be able to comprehend language and use its written forms. And human sign language, which is based on visible gesture rather than the creation of sound waves, is an infinitely creative Structure of the human brain. The system just like spoken forms of human brain displays a number of language. But the basis of sign physiological and structural language is not in the hand, just as characteristics that must be understood spoken language is not based in the before beginning a discussion of the lips or tongue. There are many brain as language organ. First, the examples of aphasics who lose both cerebrum, consisting of a cortex (the the ability to write as well as to outer layer) and a subcortex, is also express themselves using sign- divided into two hemispheres joined by language, yet they never lose a membrane called the corpus callosum. manual dexterity in other tasks, There are a few points which must be such as sipping with a straw or tying made about the functioning of these two their shoes. cerebral hemispheres.