Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity

S Dehaene, F Al Roumi, Y Lakretz, S Planton… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural language is often seen as the single factor that explains the cognitive singularity of
the human species. Instead, we propose that humans possess multiple internal languages …

Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language

ED Jarvis - Science, 2019 - science.org
Although language, and therefore spoken language or speech, is often considered unique
to humans, the past several decades have seen a surge in nonhuman animal studies that …

Generative grammar and the faculty of language: Insights, questions, and challenges

N Chomsky, ÁJ Gallego, D Ott - Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019 - revistes.uab.cat
This paper provides an overview of what we take to be the key current issues in the field of
Generative Grammar, the study of the human Faculty of Language. We discuss some of the …

[HTML][HTML] The human language effective connectome

ET Rolls, G Deco, CC Huang, J Feng - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
To advance understanding of brain networks involved in language, the effective connectivity
between 26 cortical regions implicated in language by a community analysis and 360 …

Chimpanzees produce diverse vocal sequences with ordered and recombinatorial properties

C Girard-Buttoz, E Zaccarella, T Bortolato… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The origins of human language remains a major question in evolutionary science. Unique to
human language is the capacity to flexibly recombine a limited sound set into words and …

Multiple cortical visual streams in humans

ET Rolls, G Deco, CC Huang, J Feng - Cerebral Cortex, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The effective connectivity between 55 visual cortical regions and 360 cortical regions was
measured in 171 HCP participants using the HCP-MMP atlas, and complemented with …

Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network

E Fedorenko, IA Blank, M Siegelman, Z Mineroff - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and
constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic processing) and identifies …

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 …

Auditory cortical connectivity in humans

ET Rolls, JP Rauschecker, G Deco, CC Huang… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
To understand auditory cortical processing, the effective connectivity between 15 auditory
cortical regions and 360 cortical regions was measured in 171 Human Connectome Project …

Reconstructing the cascade of language processing in the brain using the internal computations of a transformer-based language model

S Kumar, TR Sumers, T Yamakoshi, A Goldstein… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Piecing together the meaning of a narrative requires understanding not only the individual
words but also the intricate relationships between them. How does the brain construct this …