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Panich52

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Wed Aug 19, 2015, 09:11 AM Aug 2015

Whistled Turkish challenges notions about language and the brain

Whistled Turkish challenges notions about language and the brain

Generally speaking, language processing is a job for the brain's left hemisphere. That's true whether that language is spoken, written, or signed. But researchers have discovered an exception to this rule in a most remarkable form: whistled Turkish.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150817131955.htm

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