TY - JOUR
T1 - Language, mind and brain
AU - Friederici, Angela D.
AU - Chomsky, Noam
AU - Berwick, Robert C.
AU - Moro, Andrea
AU - Bolhuis, Johan J.
N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to R. Huybregts for his comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. J.J.B. is part of the Consortium on Individual Development (CID), which is funded through the Gravitation program of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; grant number 024.001.003). Publisher Copyright: © 2017 The Publisher.
PY - 2017/10/1
Y1 - 2017/10/1
N2 - Language serves as a cornerstone of human cognition. However, our knowledge about its neural basis is still a matter of debate, partly because 'language' is often ill-defined. Rather than equating language with 'speech' or 'communication', we propose that language is best described as a biologically determined computational cognitive mechanism that yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. The results of recent brain imaging studies are consistent with this view of language as an autonomous cognitive mechanism, leading to a view of its neural organization, whereby language involves dynamic interactions of syntactic and semantic aspects represented in neural networks that connect the inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices functionally and structurally.
AB - Language serves as a cornerstone of human cognition. However, our knowledge about its neural basis is still a matter of debate, partly because 'language' is often ill-defined. Rather than equating language with 'speech' or 'communication', we propose that language is best described as a biologically determined computational cognitive mechanism that yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. The results of recent brain imaging studies are consistent with this view of language as an autonomous cognitive mechanism, leading to a view of its neural organization, whereby language involves dynamic interactions of syntactic and semantic aspects represented in neural networks that connect the inferior frontal and superior temporal cortices functionally and structurally.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41562-017-0184-4
DO - 10.1038/s41562-017-0184-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 31024099
SN - 2397-3374
VL - 1
SP - 713
EP - 722
JO - Nature Human Behaviour
JF - Nature Human Behaviour
IS - 10
ER -