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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/60cd2576-b18c-4912-9bd2-417b7de26037_hq__1_.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Study: We Learn Language in Pre-Human Area of Brain' data-article-id='3294'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13917'>A new study from brain researchers helps explain how the human brain evolved, or changed over time, to permit people to speak and write.</span> <span data-start-time='13917' data-end-time='20042'>This new research may also help people who are learning a new language.</span> <span data-start-time='20042' data-end-time='24479'>Michael Ullman is the lead researcher.</span> <span data-start-time='24479' data-end-time='31625'>He is a professor at Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D.C.</span> <span data-start-time='31625' data-end-time='37146'>He has been studying language learning for more than 20 years.</span> <span data-start-time='37146' data-end-time='47688'>Ullman says his research shows that the human brain does not have a special area or system for making language.</span> <span data-start-time='47688' data-end-time='57604'>Over time, he says, we have simply reused, or co-opted, parts of our brain for language.</span> <span data-start-time='57604' data-end-time='65271'>And those parts, he says, are ancient, older even than humans themselves.</span> <span data-start-time='65271' data-end-time='85042'>&ldquo;This study examines the theoretical framework that language is learned, stored and processed in two ancient, so, pre-existing humans, learning and memory systems in the brain.</span> <span data-start-time='85042' data-end-time='90917'>And these have been co-opted, reused. for language in humans.&rdquo;</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/65C06E47-5445-4A6D-BBED-CC19AFBC0081_w1023_r1_s.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=11295 data-hint-location='47688' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/what_does_coopted_mean.wav'>What does co-opted mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='to use or take control of (something) for your own purposes'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/to_use_or_take_control_of_something_for_your_own_purposes.wav'><span>to use or take control of (something) for your own purposes</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/to_choose_something.wav'><span>to choose something</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/to_go_against_societys_expectations.wav'><span>to go against society&#39;s expectations</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/to_complain.wav'><span>to complain</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=11296 data-hint-location='13917' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/this_new_research_may_also_help_people_who_are_learning_a_new_what.wav'>This new research may also help people who are learning a new what?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='language'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/skill.wav'><span>skill</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/language.wav'><span>language</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/sport.wav'><span>sport</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/art.wav'><span>art</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=11297 data-hint-location='20042' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/michael_ullman_is_the_lead__blank_.wav'>Michael Ullman is the lead <span class='blank'>researcher</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='researcher'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/salesman.wav'><span>salesman</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/musician.wav'><span>musician</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/educator.wav'><span>educator</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2733/researcher.wav'><span>researcher</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button 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