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Language and memory are actually interconnected. For decades, linguists were ignoring this fact, studying these two brain functions separately. Robert Knight, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has discovered the connection - now wants to know just how much memory and language interact.
"One of our areas of research is defining the degree of that connectivity, how the brain rhythms in one area, the hippocampus, are coherent with brain rhythms in the language area. It's like two people dancing; are they in sync, right? Are they coherent?"
These new findings will help scientists open up a whole new area of study with intracranial recordings.
“We might be able to use it as an early diagnostic tool, but more importantly it would open up the possibility that we could stimulate the brain to restore the proper brain rhythm."
Knight says this study might also shed new light on diseases affecting language and memory - like autism, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. |
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