Tuesday, April 21, 2009

How Does the Brain Form Sentences?


Filed under: Language and the brain

Forming a grammatically correct sentence may seem to require advanced cognitive skills, but it turns out that our creative language capacity might rely on a less sophisticated system than is commonly thought. A recent study suggests that our ability to construct sentences may arise from procedural memory—the same simple memory system that lets our dogs learn to sit on command.

Full article: Scientific American


See also:

>  How we think before we speak: Making sense of sentences
>  Whistling language remains a mystery
>  Monkeys Use “Sentences,” Study Suggests
>  Un-total recall: Amnesics remember grammar, but not meaning of new sentences
>  Speech prediction software

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