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Autonomy of syntactic processing and the role of Broca's area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Angela D. Friederici
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-lnstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. angelafr@cns.mpg.de

Abstract

Both autonomy and local specificity are compatible with observed interconnectivity at the cell level when considering two different levels: cell assemblies and brain systems. Early syntactic structuring processes in particular are likely to representan autonomous module in the language/brain system.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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