Author(s): Alaa L. Alnajm

Abstract: This paper examines language processing in the human brain and, more specifically, what happens to spoken language when certain areas of the brain are damaged. Language processing is what takes place whenever we understand or produce speech; a normal task, but one of extraordinary complexity, whose mysteries have baffled some of the greatest minds across the centuries.

Keywords: neuro-linguistics, brain, aphasia and language.