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Wernicke’s area:

Makes sense of spoken and written language

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Auditory area:

Analyzes speech sounds and tonę of voice

Body language

Morę than half of human communication is norwerbal through expressions and gestures:

| Happy (smiling)

| Sad (crying)

| Angry (narrowed eyes and ¹ clenched fists)

| Nervous (biting nails)

| Defensive (folded arms)

| Confident (locked hands ¹ behind head)

Bored (inspecting fingernails

Larynx: Contains vocal cords

Vocal cords: Vibrate when air passes over them, creating sounds

• or looking at watch)

Learning

languages

The younger you are, the easier it is to learn another language, but scientists cannot agree why this is. Maybe it's because the young brain is morę “plastic” and has a greater capacity for learning.

Morę people in the world are multilingual (able to speak morę than one language) than single-language speakers.

__ People who can speak lots of different languages are known as polyglots. The Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien was fluent in 13 languages, could get by in 12 others, and even invented his own languages.

When hands are better than words

Directing traffic in a Doing a deal on a busy city    stock exchange

Demonstrating    Refereeing at a Asking people to be Calling a taxi to Clapping to show

safety procedures    soccer gamę    guiet—ssshh ...    stop for you    appreciation

Ten most widely spoken languages
language approx no. of speakers
Chinese Mandarin	1,213,000,000
Spanish	329,000,000
English	328,000,000
Arabie	221,000,000
Hindi	182,000,000
Bengali	181,000,000
Portuguese	178,000,000
Russian	144,000,000
Japanese	122,000,000

Tell me morę: the ear

90,000,000

German

Ear canal: Waxy tubę that carries sound waves to the inner ear

Eardrum:

Vibrates when struck by sound waves

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Cochlea: Fluid-filled spiral structure that turns vibrations into nerve impulses

Eustachian tubę:

Controls air pressure

Oval window: Membranę that transmits vibrations to fluid-filled inner ear

Incus: Picks up vibrations from the malleus

Semicircular canals:

Help the person keep their balance

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vibrations to oval window

Pinna: Ear fiap that directs sound waves into ear

Malleus: Transmits vibrations from the eardrum

Cochlear nerve: Carries nerve impulses to the brain