The Brain's Dictionary Mapped

• Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have produced detailed models of the brain's neural dictionary
• Although individual maps may be different, they are broadly similar, with similar regions accessed for similar words
• The detailed models show that networks of context-related words are grouped together all over the brain
• Such models could be used to make a 'language decoder' which could potentially be used to help people with communication disorders such as motor neuron disease and locked-in syndrome