The psychology of learning a language

Its name is Heschl's gyrus and it is found in the area of the primary auditory cortex, that is the cortical structure in charge of processing incoming auditory information. But what's more, your ability to learn easily a foreign language also depends on this area, and more precisely on its dimensions.

Learning a language which is different from your native idiom is not just a question of practice, but it depends also on your brain potential. This discovery has been attributed to some researchers from the Northwestern University of Chicago who published a study on the Celebral Cortex review giving scientific base to a quite common belief. Learning languages can be difficult and a challenging task. Translators know it all and find the art of learning languages fun. Learning languages can help an individual with a earning good project with a renowned Translation Agency.

Scientists conducted an experiment on 17 people aged between 18 and 26. They measured the dimensions of their Helschl'gyrus through a magnetic resonance imaging and, on this basis they managed to identify who, among them, would have learnt more quickly 18 words of a pseudo-invented language. The bigger the volume of the area, the easier it was for them to learn new words. In particular, the dimensions of the left part of the gyrus marked the difference, as declared by Catherine Warrier, one the scientists.

Those who took part in the experiment, all English native speakers, had their Holschl's gyrus measured at the start and subsequently entered into a sound-proof booth and listened to six sounds made up of just one syllable (pesh, dree, ner, vece, nuck and fute), produced in three different tonalities. The pseudo-words were 18 in total, because in tonal languages the meaning of a word changes according to the tonality. The 18 words were associated to images that represented their meaning. The sound ?pesh', for example, was linked, according to the different tonality, to the words ?glass', ?pencil' and ?table'. The nine participants who had the biggest Heschl's gyrus managed to identify the pseudo-words at a rate of 97%. The rest of them scored a 63%. Some of them needed to listen to the words 18 times to recognize the sounds. Looking at the above situation we can clearly understand the several difficulties a translator may face during translation projects. However they still have to maintain professional translation standards to stay competitive in the market.

This shows there is a connection between biology and linguistic ability, so that some people are more predisposed than others to learning a foreign language. During the past, some researches had already proved there is relationships between linguistic skills and brain structure, but for the first time scientists have managed to spot the precise area where this phenomenon takes place. Translation Services providers continuously wok on these research findings to choose the best translators available in the market.?

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