A recent study suggests that the human brain does not utilize natural language centers for logical reasoning. Researchers found that stroke patients with severe aphasia, who had near-chance comprehension of written text, performed well on logic tasks. Further fMRI scans in healthy adults indicated that language area activation did not correlate with the difficulty of logical problems, implying that words may be too ambiguous for formal thought and the brain uses non-linguistic symbols for logic. AI
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