Syntactic structure building in the anterior temporal lobe during natural story listening

J Brennan, Y Nir, U Hasson, R Malach, DJ Heeger… - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
The neural basis of syntax is a matter of substantial debate. In particular, the inferior frontal
gyrus (IFG), or Broca's area, has been prominently linked to syntactic processing, but the …

The brain circuitry of syntactic comprehension

E Kaan, TY Swaab - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2002 - cell.com
Syntactic comprehension is a fundamental aspect of human language, and has distinct
properties from other aspects of language (eg semantics). In this article, we aim to identify if …

Form and content: dissociating syntax and semantics in sentence comprehension

M Dapretto, SY Bookheimer - Neuron, 1999 - cell.com
The distinction between syntax (sentence form) and semantics (sentence meaning) is
fundamental to our thinking about language. Whether and where this distinction is …

Syntactic processing is distributed across the language system

I Blank, Z Balewski, K Mahowald, E Fedorenko - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Language comprehension recruits an extended set of regions in the human brain.
Is syntactic processing localized to a particular region or regions within this system, or is it …

What artificial grammar learning reveals about the neurobiology of syntax

KM Petersson, V Folia, P Hagoort - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Commonalities and asymmetries in the neurobiological infrastructure for language production and comprehension

L Giglio, M Ostarek, K Weber, P Hagoort - Cerebral Cortex, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The neurobiology of sentence production has been largely understudied compared to the
neurobiology of sentence comprehension, due to difficulties with experimental control and …

[HTML][HTML] Isolating syntax in natural language: MEG evidence for an early contribution of left posterior temporal cortex

G Flick, L Pylkkänen - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Although the construction of syntactic structures is considered a fundamental component of
language processing, insights concerning its neurobiological basis have remained elusive …

The role of the IFG and pSTS in syntactic prediction: Evidence from a parametric study of hierarchical structure in fMRI

W Matchin, C Hammerly, E Lau - cortex, 2017 - Elsevier
Sentences encode hierarchical structural relations among words. Several neuroimaging
experiments aiming to localize combinatory operations responsible for creating this structure …

Abstract linguistic structure correlates with temporal activity during naturalistic comprehension

JR Brennan, EP Stabler, SE Van Wagenen, WM Luh… - Brain and language, 2016 - Elsevier
Neurolinguistic accounts of sentence comprehension identify a network of relevant brain
regions, but do not detail the information flowing through them. We investigate syntactic …

Functional organization of the neural language system: dorsal and ventral pathways are critical for syntax

JD Griffiths, WD Marslen-Wilson, EA Stamatakis… - Cerebral …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
The core of human language, which differentiates it from the communicative abilities of other
species, is the set of combinatorial operations called syntax. For over a century researchers …