Hannah Small

Now on its fifth season, The Bear (2022-2026) is a show which encompasses what it is like to work with passion, dedication and talent in an environment that challenges you at every turn. From complex family relationships, failing interpersonal connections, a restaurant which bleeds money, fights and the occasional stabbing, The Bear has never shied away from highlighting the realities of ‘making it big’ in a world where passion is often secondary to practical function and profitability.

Abstract In adults, left hemisphere (LH) damage often leads to aphasia, but many cases of early damage leave linguistic processing intact, with a functional language system developing in the right hemisphere. To explain this early apparent equipotentiality of the two hemispheres for language, some have proposed that the language system is more bilateral during early development and becomes increasingly left-lateralized with age.

Keywords cerebellum language cognitive neuroscience fMRI Introduction The cerebellum contains an impressive 80% of all neurons in the human brain (despite being only 10% of the size1) and almost 80% of the surface area of the cerebral cortex,2 making it one of the most computationally formidable neural structures.