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Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca’s region

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Petersson,  Karl Magnus
Neurocognition of Language Processing , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging , External Organizations;
Cognitive Neurophysiology Research Group, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, N8 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;

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Petersson, K. M., Forkstam, C., & Ingvar, M. (2004). Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca’s region. Cognitive Science, 28(3), 383-407. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2803_4.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1BE0-F
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.