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 …

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 …

Neuroimaging of syntax and syntactic processing

Y Grodzinsky, AD Friederici - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2006 - Elsevier
Recent results challenge and refine the prevailing view of the way language is represented
in the human brain. Syntactic knowledge and processing mechanisms that implement syntax …

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 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 …

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 …

How the brain solves the binding problem for language: a neurocomputational model of syntactic processing

P Hagoort - Neuroimage, 2003 - Elsevier
Syntax is one of the components in the architecture of language processing that allows the
listener/reader to bind single-word information into a unified interpretation of multiword …

The cortical organization of syntax

W Matchin, G Hickok - Cerebral Cortex, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Syntax, the structure of sentences, enables humans to express an infinite range of
meanings through finite means. The neurobiology of syntax has been intensely studied but …

Functional anatomy of syntactic and semantic processing in language comprehension

KK Luke, HL Liu, YY Wai, YL Wan… - Human brain …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was conducted to map syntactic and
semantic processes onto the brain. Chinese‐English bilingual subjects performed two …

Distinct spatiotemporal patterns of syntactic and semantic processing in human inferior frontal gyrus

Y Zhu, M Xu, J Lu, J Hu, VPY Kwok, Y Zhou… - Nature Human …, 2022 - nature.com
Human languages are based on syntax, a set of rules which allow an infinite number of
meaningful sentences to be constructed from a finite set of words. A theory associated with …