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Podcast: Curiosity Weekly
Episode: Tool Use and Language in the Brain, Why Black Holes Get Bigger
Description: Learn how tool use and language work in the brain; and why black holes get bigger due to the expansion of the universe.Tool use and language ability go hand in hand by Grant CurrinUsing mechanical tools improves our language skills. (2021, November 11). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/934004Thibault, S., Py, R., Gervasi, A. M., Salemme, R., Koun, E., Lövden, M., Boulenger, V., Roy, A. C., & Brozzoli, C. (2021). Tool use and language share syntactic processes and neural patterns in the basal ganglia. Science, 374(6569). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe0874Know Your Brain: Basal Ganglia. (2014). Neuroscientifically C...