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2001
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A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production
A neural correlate of syntactic encoding during speech production
Spoken language is one of the most compact and structured ways to convey information. The linguistic ability to structure individual words into larger sentence units permits speakers to express a nearly unlimited range of meanings. This ability is rooted in speakers' knowledge of syntax and in...
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Personal Name(s): | Indefrey, P. |
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Brown, C. / Hellwig, F. / Amunts, K. / Herzog, H. / Seitz, R. J. / Hagoort, T. S. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Institut für Medizin; IME |
Published in: | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98 (2001) S. 5933 - 5936 |
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Washington, DC
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2001
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5933 - 5936 |
PubMed ID: |
11331773 |
DOI: |
10.1073/pnas.101118098 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Zerebrale Repräsentation |
Series Title: |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
98 |
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Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.101118098 in citations.
Spoken language is one of the most compact and structured ways to convey information. The linguistic ability to structure individual words into larger sentence units permits speakers to express a nearly unlimited range of meanings. This ability is rooted in speakers' knowledge of syntax and in the corresponding process of syntactic encoding. Syntactic encoding is highly automatized, operates largely outside of conscious awareness, and overlaps closely in time with several other processes of language production. With the use of positron emission tomography we investigated the cortical activations during spoken language production that are related to the syntactic encoding process. In the paradigm of restrictive scene description, utterances varying in complexity of syntactic encoding were elicited. Results provided evidence that the left Rolandic operculum, caudally adjacent to Broca's area, is involved in both sentence-level and local (phrase-level) syntactic encoding during speaking. |