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Anna Demming

Your native language may shape the wiring of your brain

a colorful brain scan shows axons (wires) in a network that winds through the brain

A person's native language may shape how their brain builds connections between different hubs of information processing, a new brain scan study reveals. 

The observed differences in these language network structures were related to linguistic characteristics in the native languages of the study participants: German and Arabic. 

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