Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca's region Export

@article{Peterssonetal04, abstract = {In the present study, using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated a group of participants on a grammaticality classification task after they had been exposed to well-formed consonant strings generated from an artificial regular grammar.We used an implicit acquisition paradigm in which the participants were exposed to positive examples. The objective of this studywas to investigate whether brain regions related to language processing overlap with the brain regions activated by the grammaticality classification task used in the present study. Recent meta-analyses of functional neuroimaging studies indicate that syntactic processing is related to the left inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann's areas 44 and 45) or Broca's region. In the present study, we observed that artificial grammaticality violations activated Broca's region in all participants. This observation lends some support to the suggestions that artificial grammar learning represents a model for investigating aspects of language learning in infants [TICS 4 (2000) 178] and adults [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America 99 (2002) 529]. {\copyright} 2004 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. All rights reserved.}, author = {Petersson, Karl M. and Forkstam, Christian and Ingvar, Martin}, citeulike-article-id = {3739620}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2803_4}, doi = {10.1207/s15516709cog2803_4}, journal = {Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal}, keywords = {artificial-grammar, broca, cognition, fmri, language, learning, syntax}, number = {3}, pages = {383--407}, posted-at = {2008-12-03 10:50:22}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Psychology Press}, title = {Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca's region}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2803_4}, volume = {28}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - Peterssonetal04 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3739620 N2 - In the present study, using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated a group of participants on a grammaticality classification task after they had been exposed to well-formed consonant strings generated from an artificial regular grammar.We used an implicit acquisition paradigm in which the participants were exposed to positive examples. The objective of this studywas to investigate whether brain regions related to language processing overlap with the brain regions activated by the grammaticality classification task used in the present study. Recent meta-analyses of functional neuroimaging studies indicate that syntactic processing is related to the left inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann's areas 44 and 45) or Broca's region. In the present study, we observed that artificial grammaticality violations activated Broca's region in all participants. This observation lends some support to the suggestions that artificial grammar learning represents a model for investigating aspects of language learning in infants [TICS 4 (2000) 178] and adults [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of United States of America 99 (2002) 529]. © 2004 Cognitive Science Society, Inc. All rights reserved. IS - 3 JF - Cognitive Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal EP - 407 TI - Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca's region PB - Psychology Press VL - 28 SP - 383 KW - artificial-grammar KW - broca KW - cognition KW - fmri KW - language KW - learning KW - syntax AU - Petersson, Karl AU - Forkstam, Christian AU - Ingvar, Martin PY - 2004/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2803_4 ER -