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| 0627-4023-01 | Seminar in Neurolinguistics: Broca's Area | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Seminar in Neurolinguistics: Broca's area
Aya Meltzer-Asscher
In the last decades, different hypotheses were proposed with regard to the role of Broca's region in sentence comprehension. Among them:
• It supports syntactic movement
• It supports hierarchical processing and phrase structure building
• It supports linearization processes
• It supports working memory
• It supports cognitive control
In this seminar we'll discuss the different hypotheses and the evidence supporting them, and examine them critically while relying on anatomical, neuropsychological and imaging studies.
Prerequisites: Psycholinguistics: research methods and experimental design; Neurolinguistics: Language and the brain
Course requirements: weekly reading, final paper
Selected references
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2009). Word order and Broca's region: Evidence for a supra-syntactic perspective. Brain and Language, 111, 125-139.
Caplan, D., Alpert, N., Waters, G., & Olivieri, A. (2000). Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing under conditions of concurrent articulation. Human Brain Mapping, 9, 65-71.
Friederici, A. D., Meyer, M., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2000). Auditory language comprehension: An event-related fMRI study on the processing of syntactic and lexical information. Brain and Language, 74, 289-300.
Friederici, A. D., Ruschemeyer, S. A., Hahne, A., & Fiebach, C. J. (2003). The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: Localizing syntactic and semantic processes. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 170-177.
Grodzinsky, Y. (2000). The neurology of syntax: Language use with Broca's area. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 1-21.
Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2000). Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 131-138.
Rogalsky, C. & Hickok, G. (2011). The role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1664-1680.
Aya Meltzer-Asscher
In the last decades, different hypotheses were proposed with regard to the role of Broca's region in sentence comprehension. Among them:
• It supports syntactic movement
• It supports hierarchical processing and phrase structure building
• It supports linearization processes
• It supports working memory
• It supports cognitive control
In this seminar we'll discuss the different hypotheses and the evidence supporting them, and examine them critically while relying on anatomical, neuropsychological and imaging studies.
Prerequisites: Psycholinguistics: research methods and experimental design; Neurolinguistics: Language and the brain
Course requirements: weekly reading, final paper
Selected references
Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Schlesewsky, M., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2009). Word order and Broca's region: Evidence for a supra-syntactic perspective. Brain and Language, 111, 125-139.
Caplan, D., Alpert, N., Waters, G., & Olivieri, A. (2000). Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing under conditions of concurrent articulation. Human Brain Mapping, 9, 65-71.
Friederici, A. D., Meyer, M., & von Cramon, D. Y. (2000). Auditory language comprehension: An event-related fMRI study on the processing of syntactic and lexical information. Brain and Language, 74, 289-300.
Friederici, A. D., Ruschemeyer, S. A., Hahne, A., & Fiebach, C. J. (2003). The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: Localizing syntactic and semantic processes. Cerebral Cortex, 13, 170-177.
Grodzinsky, Y. (2000). The neurology of syntax: Language use with Broca's area. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 1-21.
Hickok, G., & Poeppel, D. (2000). Towards a functional neuroanatomy of speech perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 131-138.
Rogalsky, C. & Hickok, G. (2011). The role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1664-1680.