“We used to think language was this diffuse, whole-network phenomenon,” says Ziv Williams, a neurosurgeon [...] and co-author of the study. “But it turns out you have specific neurons that only care if a word is a noun, or only care if a phrase is ending.”
Dr Urmila Chadayammuri
What happens in the frontotemporal cortex during language production?
Turns out distinct neurons represent detailed grammatical relationships between words & others track the sentences’ higher-order syntactic structure, phrase transitions & sequence
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Wide-scale recordings reveal neurons in the human brain that encode fundamental components of language such as the grammatical relationships between words, their parts of speech and the...
