How did Language Come to be Reflected in the Architecture of the Brain?

Language learning is one of the mysteries of human cognition. Language is vital to individual success, and diseases affecting language can cripple a person in his or her family or social group. On-going research is making progress in understanding language, its neural basis and how to successfully intervene in the course of language disorders. Over the past two decades, a large body of neuroimaging studies has been devoted to the study of the neural organisation of language (De´monet et al., 2005; Indefrey and Levelt, 2004). To date, the results of these brain-imaging studies have not only converged with the findings derived from clinical aphasiology but have also opened a number of new perspectives to our understanding of the brain–language relationship. By understanding how the brain learns, educators determine at what developmental level the child is physically, mentally, socially and cognitively. The more knowledge an educator has and applies, the better the children will learn, and our future leaders will be better educated.