Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain (PNAS)
La ricerca del MIT sulle aree del cervello dedicate al linguaggio, anticipata su Linguaggio Macchina il 31 agosto 2011 , è stata pubblicata su PNAS il primo settembre: Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain . Ringrazio Evelina (Ev) Fedorenko , prima firma del paper, per avermi informato tempestivamente.
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Andrea Mameli, Cagliari, 3 settembre 2011
Functional specificity for high-level linguistic processing in the human brain
Evelina Fedorenko, Michael K. Behr, Michael Behr
Abstract
Neuroscientists have debated for centuries whether some regions of the human brain are selectively engaged in specific high-level mental functions or whether, instead, cognition is implemented in multifunctional brain regions. For the critical case of language, conflicting answers arise from the neuropsychological literature, which features striking dissociations between deficits in linguistic and nonlinguistic abilities, vs. the neuroimaging lit