ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Neural Correlates of Syntax and Proto-Syntax: Evolutionary Dimension.
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Abstract
The present fMRI study tested predictions of the evolution-of-syntax framework which analyzes certain structures as remnants ("fossils") of a non-hierarchical (non-recursive) proto-syntactic stage in the evolution of language (Progovac, 2015, 2016). We hypothesized that processing of these structures, in comparison to more modern hierarchical structures, will show less activation in the brain regions that are part of the syntactic network, including Broca's area (BA 44 and 45) and the basal ganglia, i.e., the network bolstered in the line of descent of humans through genetic mutations that contributed to present-day dense neuronal connectivity among these regions. Fourteen healthy native English-speaking adults viewed written stimuli consisting of: (1) full sentences (FullS; e.g.,
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