Universal neural basis of structure building evidenced by network modulations emerging from Broca's area : the case of Chinese

• Main Authors: Wu, Chiao-Yi, Zaccarella, Emiliano, Friederici, Angela D.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Broca’s Area; Dynamic Causal Modeling
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142387
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The basic steps in building up language involve binding words of different categories into a hierarchical structure. To what extent these steps are universal or differ across languages is an open issue. Here we examine the neural dynamics of phrase structure building in Chinese-a language that in co...