Grammatical Predictors for fMRI Timecourses
Jixing Li, John Hale
March 2018 

There is widespread agreement that a network of brain regions surrounding the Sylvian fissure supports human language comprehension. Less clear is what the individual anatomical sites of this network actually do. Towards a more precise functional anatomy of language comprehension, we correlated time-series predictions from a variety of grammatical predictors with fMRI data from several well-known brain regions. The results categorize the types of the language-processing these areas carry out. In particular, they confirm a statistically-significant role for a predictor based on Minimalist Grammars in the posterior temporal region, roughly corresponding to Wernicke’s area.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/003933 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Stabler, E., & Berwick, R. (Eds.). Minimalist Parsing. Oxford University Press.
keywords:	neuro-computational models, fmri, sentence processing, semantics, syntax
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