BAPFOHL
May 16, 2001
Brains, genes, and language


1. Meet your brain!

• The Whole Brain Atlas (Harvard Medical School)



• A brain page for kids

2. Left brain, right brain

• The relationship between your hands, your brain, and your language

3. Does the brain have special "language areas"?

• The Laboratory for Cognitive Neuropsychology at Yang Ming University (in Chinese)



• CNN describes research on language and the brain

4. Are there really "grammar genes"?

• A conference about the genetics of language



• A "gene" "for" language???



• CNN reports on a gene affecting a reading disorder



• More on Chromosome 7 from the Human Genome Project