December 28, 2006

what happens to your brain when speaking in "tongues"?


If you speak in an unknown language you may be interested to find out what changes happen in your brain while you are doing it.

The university of pennsylvania says it finds less "frontal lobe" activity (the area having to do with "willful control") in people when they are speaking in "tongues" than when they are not, seeming to validate the subjective feeling of not being in control of the speech.

To read the full scientific report go here. http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~tim/introframe/tongues.pdf

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

hmm, seems somewhat similar to a study I'm doing on music and the brain tho not quite. I'll have to check it out more