Editing Human brain (section)

===Language===
[[File:1605_Brocas_and_Wernickes_Areas-02.jpg|thumb|[[Broca's area]] and [[Wernicke's area]] are linked by the [[arcuate fasciculus]].]]
{{Main |Language processing in the brain}}
{{See also|Two-streams hypothesis#Two auditory systems}}

While language functions were traditionally thought to be localised to [[Wernicke's area]] and [[Broca's area]],{{sfn|Guyton & Hall|2011|pp=720-2}} it is now mostly accepted that a wider network of [[Cortex (anatomy)|cortical]] regions contributes to language functions.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Poeppel |first1=D. |last2=Emmorey |first2=K. |last3=Hickok |first3=G. |last4=Pylkkänen |first4=L.|author1-link=David Poeppel|author2-link=Karen Emmorey|author4-link=Liina Pylkkänen |title=Towards a new neurobiology of language |journal=The Journal of Neuroscience |date=October 10, 2012 |volume=32 |issue=41 |pages=14125–14131 |doi=10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3244-12.2012 |pmid=23055482 |pmc=3495005}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hickok |first1=G |title=The functional neuroanatomy of language |journal=Physics of Life Reviews |date=September 2009 |volume=6 |issue=3 |pages=121–143 |doi=10.1016/j.plrev.2009.06.001|pmid=20161054 |pmc=2747108 |bibcode=2009PhLRv...6..121H }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1=Fedorenko | first1=E. | last2=Kanwisher | first2=N. | journal=Language and Linguistics Compass | volume=3 | issue=4 | title=Neuroimaging of language: why hasn't a clearer picture emerged? | pages=839–865 | doi=10.1111/j.1749-818x.2009.00143.x | year=2009 | s2cid=2833893 | df=mdy-all | doi-access=free }}</ref>

The study on how language is represented, processed, and [[language acquisition|acquired]] by the brain is called [[neurolinguistics]], which is a large multidisciplinary field drawing from [[cognitive neuroscience]], [[cognitive linguistics]], and [[psycholinguistics]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Language intervention strategies in aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders |last=Damasio |first=H. |date=2001 |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |isbn=978-0-7817-2133-2 |editor-last=Chapey |editor-first=Roberta |edition=4th |pages=18–36 |chapter=Neural basis of language disorders |oclc=45952164}}</ref>