Whether you're just chatting or giving a presentation, the ability to speak is taken almost for granted by healthy individuals. Yet the path from thoughts to the spoken word triggers complex processes in the brain. A large number of specialized brain regions work together as a close network in fractions of seconds.

JARA-BRAIN scientist PD Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Heim explains: "The brain is a highly complex organ that works by dividing up tasks. In our research on language processing, we were able to show what functions individual brain areas have and how these interact with each other seamlessly."