Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have found evidence that the language we speak forms connections in our brains that may underlie the way we think. Using magnetic resonance imaging, they looked deep into the brains of German and Arabic speakers and found differences in the connectivity of language areas in the brain.

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“Arabic speakers have a stronger left-right hemisphere connection than German speakers. This enhancement was also found between semantic language regions and may be related to the relatively complex semantic and phonological processing in Arabic,” the researchers said.

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