1. Tool use and language share syntactic processes and neural patterns in the basal ganglia
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Alice C. Roy, Romeo Salemme, Martin Lövdén, Angelo Mattia Gervasi, Claudio Brozzoli, Eric Koun, Simon Thibault, Raphaël Py, Véronique Boulenger, Boulenger, Véronique, Integrative Multisensory Perception, Action and Cognition (IMPACT), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm], Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), Université Lumière - Lyon 2 (UL2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Integrative, Multisensory, Perception, Action and Cognition Team [Bron] (IMPACT), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Male ,Computer science ,computer.software_genre ,Basal Ganglia ,Domain (software engineering) ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognition ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neural Pathways ,Basal ganglia ,Motor plan ,Humans ,Learning ,Language ,030304 developmental biology ,Brain Mapping ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,business.industry ,[SCCO.NEUR]Cognitive science/Neuroscience ,[SCCO.NEUR] Cognitive science/Neuroscience ,[SDV.NEU.SC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences ,Linguistics ,[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Syntax ,Memory, Short-Term ,[SCCO.PSYC] Cognitive science/Psychology ,[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology ,Female ,Artificial intelligence ,[SCCO.LING] Cognitive science/Linguistics ,business ,computer ,Psychomotor Performance ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Natural language processing ,[SDV.NEU.SC] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC]/Cognitive Sciences - Abstract
International audience; Does tool use share syntactic processes with language? Acting with a tool is thought to add a hierarchical level into the motor plan. In the linguistic domain, syntax is the cognitive function handling interdependent elements. Using fMRI, we detected common neurofunctional substrates in the basal ganglia subserving both tool use and syntax in language. The two abilities elicited similar patterns of neural activity, indicating the existence of shared functional resources. Manual actions and verbal working memory did not contribute to this common network. In line with the existence of shared neural resources, we observed bidirectional behavioral enhancement of tool use and syntactic skills in language so that training one function improves performance in the other. This reveals supramodal syntactic processes for tool use and language. One Sentence Summary: Syntactic processes in the basal ganglia subserve both tool use and language such that training one ability boosts the other.
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- 2021