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Fixation-Related Fmri And Syntactic Networks In The Brain, Brent Foster, Ben Carter, Steven Luke
Fixation-Related Fmri And Syntactic Networks In The Brain, Brent Foster, Ben Carter, Steven Luke
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Humans comprehend language at varying levels of complexity. Syntax, in particular, deals with the arrangement of words and phrases into meaningful sentences. For instance, in English we expect most sentences to follow some variation of the order "Subject-Verb-Object: such as "The boy (Subject) ate (Verb) cake (Object)." On the surface, such grammatical rules seem simple. However, our understanding of how the brain implements these rules to understand sentences is incomplete.
Syntax appears to be associated with Broca's area in the frontal lobe and various regions of the left temporal lobe. However, recent research has provided controversial data suggesting that the …