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On neural correlates of individual differences in novel grammar learning: An fMRI study
- Source :
- Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychologia, 98, 156-168
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- We examine the role of language analytical ability, one of the components of language aptitude – a specific ability for learning languages – during acquisition of a novel grammar. We investigated whether the neural basis of Artificial Grammar Learning (AGL) differs between populations of highly and moderately skilled learners. Participants performed an AGL task during an fMRI scan and data from task's test phases were analysed. Highly skilled learners performed better than moderately skilled ones and engaged during the task more neural resources in the right hemisphere, i.e. in the right angular/supramarginal gyrus and superior frontal and middle frontal gyrus and in the posterior cingulate gyrus. Additional analyses investigating the temporal dynamics of brain activity during learning revealed lateralisation differences in the modulation of activity in the parietal and temporal cortex. In particular, the left angular gyrus BOLD activity was coupled with high performance on the AGL task and with a steep learning curve.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Artificial grammar learning
Brain activity and meditation
Cognitive Neuroscience
education
Individuality
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Supramarginal gyrus
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Humans
Middle frontal gyrus
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Temporal cortex
Analysis of Variance
Brain Mapping
Neural correlates of consciousness
Artificial Grammar Learning
fMRI
05 social sciences
Brain
Language learning
Verbal Learning
Language acquisition
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Second-language acquisition
Semantics
Oxygen
Individual differences
Second language acquisition
Female
Language aptitude
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00283932
- Volume :
- 98
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuropsychologia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a0cf217a47bf59a17a02d297701cd80
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.06.014