Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Sustaining Rule Learning From Speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4502117 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth De Diego‐balaguer (0000-0002-2357-5195, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, corresponding author), Diana Lopez‐barroso, Diana López-Barroso (0000-0002-8938-1959, Bellvitge University Hospital) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | s2 |
| Pages | 151-187 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language Learning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8333 • E-ISSN: 1467-9922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2010.00605.x |
| OpenAlex | W1915878725 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 154 |
Learners of a new language have to extract words and the rules from speech. Learners are endowed with the capacity to extract statistical regularities from their environment allowing them to extract words from continuous speech in the absence of other cues. However, it has been proposed that natural languages have an intrinsic cue: prosodic information. This cue seems to trigger the application of different computational resources that allows the extraction of rules. This review summarizes work indicating that attention and working memory are critical in the early stages of language acquisition, in the absence of semantic information. Event-related potentials while participants learned artificial languages with embedded morphological rules show a dissociation between the brain responses associated to word and rule learning. The results indicate that salient cues such as prosody help to direct attention biasing perception to ignore irrelevant information and attend to the relevant segments containing the rule, shifting from word acquisition to rule extraction. Finally, data from individual differences in brain connectivity related to phonological working memory and data from brain-lesioned patients point to the basal ganglia as a coordinator structure among language, working memory, and attention through its rich connections with brain areas responsible for these functions
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Dissociation (chemistry) · Language acquisition · Natural language processing · Perception · Rule-based system · Speech perception · Working memory · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Citations per year | 0.19 |
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| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |