“The Evolving Understanding of the Brain-Language Relationship: From Localized Function to Broader Neural Networks”

Studies of language and languge disorders in general have formulated our understanding of the relationship between the brain and language, over the last two centuries. Language was initially perceived as a localised function utilising only specific areas of the brain. More recently, language is thought to be mediated by a much broader expance of neural networks that covers a large number of coritcal and subcortical regions. Discuss.