V. Folia
2011
Implicit artificial syntax processing: genes, preference, and bounded recursionPDF
Biolinguistics 5(1-2):105--132, 2011
Abstract The first objective of this study was to compare the brain network engaged by preference classification and the standard grammaticality classification after implicit artificial syntax acquisition by re-analyzing previously reported event-related fMRI data. The results ...MORE ⇓
Abstract The first objective of this study was to compare the brain network engaged by preference classification and the standard grammaticality classification after implicit artificial syntax acquisition by re-analyzing previously reported event-related fMRI data. The results ...
2010
Artificial language learning in adults and childrenPDF
Language Learning 60:188--220, 2010
This article briefly reviews some recent work on artificial language learning in children and adults. The final part of the article is devoted to a theoretical formulation of the language learning problem from a mechanistic neurobiological viewpoint and we show that it is ...
Brain and language, 2010
In this paper we examine the neurobiological correlates of syntax, the processing of structured sequences, by comparing FMRI results on artificial and natural language syntax. We discuss these and similar findings in the context of formal language and computability ...