RT Journal Article
T1 Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Sustaining Rule Learning from Speech
A1 De Diego Balaguer, Ruth
A1 López-Barroso, Diana
K1 Lenguaje - Estudio y enseñanza
AB Learners of a newlanguage have to extractwords and the rules from speech. Learners areendowedwith the capacity to extract statistical regularities from their environment allowingthem 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 allowsthe extraction of rules. This review summarizes work indicating that attention andworking memory are critical in the early stages of language acquisition, in the absenceof semantic information. Event-related potentials while participants learned artificiallanguages with embedded morphological rules show a dissociation between the brainresponses associated toword and rule learning. The results indicate that salient cues suchas prosody help to direct attention biasing perception to ignore irrelevant informationand attend to the relevant segments containing the rule, shifting from word acquisition torule extraction. Finally, data from individual differences in brain connectivity related tophonological working memory and data from brain-lesioned patients point to the basal ganglia as a coordinator structure among language, working memory, and attentionthrough its rich connections with brain areas responsible for these functions.
PB Wiley
YR 2010
FD 2010-11-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37454
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37454
LA eng
NO De Diego‐Balaguer, R., & Lopez‐Barroso, D. (2010). Cognitive and neural mechanisms sustaining rule learning from speech. Language Learning, 60, 151-187.
NO This work was supported by a predoctoral grant (2009FI_B 00138) from the Catalan governmentto DLB and a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science to RDB (MICINN, PSI2008-3885).
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