Does Broca's play by the rules?

Gary F. Marcus; Athena Vouloumanos; Ivan A. Sag

doi:10.1038/nn0703-651

Does Broca's play by the rules?

Gary F. Marcus, Athena Vouloumanos, Ivan A. Sag

Psychology

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Abstract

Languages may all share and be constrained by a universal grammar. A new study shows that Broca's area (long thought to participate in grammatical aspects of language) becomes increasingly active as participants acquire rules from a foreign language, but not as they acquire comparable rules that are inconsistent with real languages. Could Broca's area be a neural substrate for universal grammar?

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	651-652
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	6
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0703-651
State	Published - Jul 1 2003

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Neuroscience

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