Syntax and the Brain: Disentangling Grammar by Selective Anomalies

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 110 - 118
• Main Authors: Moro, A., Tettamanti, M., Perani, D., Donati, C., Cappa, S.F., Fazio, F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.01.2001; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain - physiology; Broca's area; Caudate nucleus; Cerebrovascular Circulation - physiology; Frontal lobe; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Information processing; Language; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Morphology; morphosyntax; Multivariate Analysis; Nerve Net; Neural networks; Neuroimaging; normal subjects; PET; Positron emission tomography; Psychomotor Performance; Semantics; Speech - physiology; syntax; Tomography, Emission-Computed; normal subjects; syntax; morphosyntax; PET

Many paradigms employed so far with functional imaging in language studies do not allow a clear differentiation of the semantic, morphological, and syntactic components, as traditionally defined within linguistic theory. In fact, many studies simply consider the brain's response to lists of unr...