A recent study unveils the brain regions sensitive to different types of linguistic information.
, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cory Shain and Hope Kean, explore how the human brain shows signatures for linguistic. This refers to the ability we have to put together individual units of meaning into larger units, typically hierarchically organized.
The authors show that major language network nodes display different levels of sensitivity to syntax,"combinatorial semantics" , and lexicality , rather than one fixed region being selective for a specific component.The authors found that posterior temporal and inferior frontal language sites showed a length effect in so-called"Jabberwocky" sentences for linguistic structural context, and all language areas showed at least some effect of lexicality .
In addition, while one of the advantages of fMRI is its spatial resolution, the authors keep to large macroanatomical areas , which may be neurobiologically implausible in terms of making spatiotemporal claims of cortical computation and the possibility of distinct response profiles that might, nevertheless, bias much more heavily towards combinatorial semantic and/or syntactic information.
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