- October 9, 2009
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Is Broca's area the site of the core computational faculty of human language?
by Greg Hickok in Talking Brains
There has been a lot of interesting claims made recently by Angela Friederici and colleagues about an association between Broca’s area, the pars opercularis in particular, and what they call "the core computational faculty of human language": hierarchical processing. Two previous studies used artificial grammar stimuli/tasks (Bahlmann, Schubotz, & Friederici, 2008; Friederici, Bahlmann, Heim, Schubotz, & Anwander, 2006). Syllable sequences were presented according to one of two rules (present........ Read more »
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