Discovery in neuroscience

The absence of a part of the brain involved in speech processing did not stop a person from learning two languages ​​and getting a degree. Evelina Fedorenko, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked for several years with a patient without a part of the brain that is involved in speech processing. Despite the lack of a left temporal lobe, she speaks fluent English and Russian, has a degree, and has had an "impressive" career. Scientists did not know before that whether the frontal lobes could form in the absence of the temporal lobes, but the experience of the patient Fedorenko showed that they can. A series of experiments confirmed that her language abilities are in no way inferior to those of neurotypical people.