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Language Learning under Working Memory Constraints Correlates with Microstructural Differences in the Ventral Language Pathway López-Barroso, Diana De Diego Balaguer, Ruth Cunillera, Toni Càmara, Estela Münthe, Thomas F. Rodríguez-Fornells, Antoni Lenguaje - Adquisición - Aspectos psicológicos The present study combined behavioral measures and diffusion tensor imaging to investigate the neuroanatomical basis of language learning in relation to phonological working memory (WM). Participants were exposed to simplified artificial languages under WM constraints. The results underscore the role of the rehearsal subcomponent of WM in successful speech segmentation and rule learning. Moreover, when rehearsal was blocked task performance was correlated to the white matter microstructure of the left ventral pathway connecting frontal and temporal language-related cortical areas through the extreme/external capsule. This ventral pathway may therefore play an important additional role in language learning when the main dorsal pathway-dependent rehearsal mechanisms are not available. 2025-01-31T11:15:39Z 2025-01-31T11:15:39Z 2025-01-31T11:15:39Z 2011-04-28 journal article Lopez-Barroso D, de Diego-Balaguer R, Cunillera T, Camara E, Münte TF, Rodriguez-Fornells A. Language learning under working memory constraints correlates with microstructural differences in the ventral language pathway. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Dec;21(12):2742-50. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37512 10.1093/cercor/bhr064 spa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Oxford University Press