PMID: 11915487Mar 28, 2002Paper

Human brain potentials reveal similar processing of non-linguistic abstract structure and linguistic syntactic structure

Neurophysiologie clinique = Clinical neurophysiology
Taïssia Lelekov-Boissard, P F Dominey

Abstract

This research tested the hypothesis that shared or related neurophysiological processes are required for treating (a) non-linguistic abstract structure and (b) some aspects of linguistic syntactic structure. In language, one syntactic structure can be used to create an open class of sentences. We have previously proposed a relation between this generative aspect of syntactic structure and the abstract structure of non-linguistic sequences. For instance, the sequences 'ABCBAC' and 'DEFEDF' have different serial order or serial structure, but share the same abstract structure '123213'. Our recent studies of neuropsychology, simulation and ERPs argued that similar neurophysiological processes are involved in treating non-linguistic abstract structure and certain aspects of linguistic syntactic structure. The current research tests this hypothesis by examining the ERP profile evoked during the processing of non-linguistic sequences vs. sentences. Ten healthy subjects were trained to discriminate between syntactically correct and incorrect sequences and sentences presented visually on a video screen. During the subsequent ERP recording, subjects discriminated between correct and incorrect sequences and sentences presented visually o...Continue Reading

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Jan 23, 2004·Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research·M Isabel Núñez-Peña, M Luisa Honrubia-Serrano
Aug 19, 2003·Brain and Language·Peter F DomineyTaïssia Lelekov-Boissard
Oct 31, 2006·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·Jörg BahlmannAngela D Friederici
Aug 30, 2008·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·Manuel Martín-LoechesWerner Sommer
Jul 12, 2014·Brain and Cognition·Mathilde BonnefondJean-Baptiste Van der Henst
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