Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing.

By Angela D. Friederici. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002

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Functional dissociations within the neural basis of auditory sentence processing are difficult to specify because phonological, syntactic and semantic information are all involved when sentences are perceived. In this review I argue that sentence processing is supported by a temporo-frontal network. Within this network, temporal regions subserve aspects of identification and frontal regions the building of syntactic and semantic relations. Temporal analyses of brain activation within this network support syntax-first models because they reveal that building of syntactic structure precedes semantic processes and that these interact only during a later stage.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Interaction between Syntax Processing in Language and in Music: An ERP Study (2005, methodology): “…(in both hemispheres, with right-hemispheric weighting; see also Koelsch, Fritz, Schulze, Alsop, & Schlaug, 2005; Koelsch, Gunter, von Cramon, et al., 2002), areas that are also crucially involved in the processing of linguistic syntax (especially in the left hemisphere; e.g., Friederici, 2002).”
An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese (2008, methodology): “Recently, several neurocognitive models have been proposed linking language comprehension subprocesses with particular ERP components (Bornkessel & Schlesewsky, 2006; Friederici, 2002; Gouvea et al., 2007; Hagoort, 2003, 2005; Ullman, 2001).”
Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension. (2004, background): “Friederici (2002) breaks Broca's area into its component regions and suggests that Brodmann's area 44 is involved in working memory for both phonological and syntactic structure.”
On Broca, brain, and binding: a new framework. (2005, background): “An alternative broad scope model [ 38 ] attributes a mainly strategic role to LIFG.”
The linguistic processes underlying the P600 (2010, methodology): “…selectivity in the presence of the AN poses a challenge for accounts of the AN that link it to general processes of morphosyntactic error detection (Friederici, 2002) or ‘failure to bind’ (Hagoort, 2003), since those accounts predict that the AN should be more consistently elicited by all…”
Electrophysiological correlates of second language processing (2005, neutral): “It has therefore been interpreted as an index of morphosyntactic processing mechanisms (Friederici, 2002).”
On the Meaning of Words and Dinosaur Bones: Lexical Knowledge Without a Lexicon (2009, methodology): “More recent claims in support of the two-stage theory have been made by Friederici (2002), based on an event-related (ERP) brain-wave component called the Early Left Anterior Negativity (or ELAN).”
Morphosyntactic processing in advanced second language (L2) learners: An event-related potential investigation of the effects of L1–L2 similarity and structural distance (2014, methodology): “…of the grand-averaged waveforms, ERPs were quantified via mean amplitudes within two time windows: 250–400 ms, which includes the LAN (Friederici, 2002) and the N400 (Kutas et al., 2006), and 400–900 ms, which includes the P600 (Friederici, 2002; Hagoort et al., 1993; Osterhout and Holcomb, 1992).”
The neural mechanisms of speech comprehension: fMRI studies of semantic ambiguity. (2005, methodology): “…to support strong claims that the posterior portion of the LIFG (BA 44/45) is specifically involved in computing the syntactic structure of sentences (Friederici, 2002), a view that seems incompatible with our finding that that activation in this region increases as a result of a semantic variable.”
The Neural Architecture of the Language Comprehension Network: Converging Evidence from Lesion and Connectivity Analyses (2011, background): “Proposals for BA 47 functions include working memory for semantic features and thematic structure (Friederici, 2002), the unification of individual semantic features into an overall representation at the multi-word level, and the controlled aspects of the retrieval, selection, and evaluation of sema”
A visual M170 effect of morphological complexity (2009, background): “the majority of ERP and MEG studies (e.g., Embick et al., 2001; Friederici, 2002; Kutas”
MUC (Memory, Unification, Control) and beyond (2013, background): “As a consequence of the mounting evidence against the classical WLG model, in recent years alternative neurobiological models for language have been proposed (e.g., Friederici, 2002; Hagoort, 2005; Hickok and Poeppel, 2007).”