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On Broca, brain, and binding: A new framework

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Hagoort, Peter·2005·Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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In speaking and comprehending language, word information is retrieved from memory and combined into larger units (unification). Unification operations take place in parallel at the semantic, syntactic and phonological levels of processing. This article proposes a new framework that connects psycholinguistic models to a neurobiological account of language. According to this proposal the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) plays an important role in unification. Research in other domains of cognition indicates that left prefrontal cortex has the necessary neurobiological characteristics for its involvement in the unification for language. I offer here a psycholinguistic perspective on the nature of language unification and the role of LIFG.

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  1. Joshi, A.K. and Schabes, Y. (1997) Treeadjoining grammars. In Handbook of Formal Languages and Automata (Vol. 3) (Salomma, A. and Rosenberg, G., eds), pp. 69-124, Springer-Verlag
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Authors
Hagoort, P.
Venue
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2005-09
Volume
9
Issue
9
Pages
416-423
ISSN
1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2164051460
Cited by
1,411
References
56
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3.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
Keywords
language unification, left inferior frontal gyrus, left prefrontal cortex, binding, Broca's area, psycholinguistic models, neurobiology of language, word retrieval, parallel computing, syntactic processing, phonological processing, semantic processing
MeSH terms
Brain, Brain Mapping, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Language, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Memory, Models, Psychological, Psycholinguistics

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