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Missing the syntactic piece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2003

Angela D. Friederici  and
Ina Bornkessel
Angela D. Friederici*
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 01403 Leipzig, Germany http://www.cns.mpg.de
Ina Bornkessel
Affiliation:
Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 01403 Leipzig, Germany http://www.cns.mpg.de
*
[email protected]
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Abstract:

The notion that the working-memory system is not to be located in the prefrontal cortex, but rather constituted by the interplay between temporal and frontal areas, is of some attraction. However, at least for the domain of sentence comprehension, this perspective is promoted on the basis of sparse data. For this domain, the authors not only missed out on the chance to systematically integrate event-related brain potential (ERP) and neuroimaging data when interpreting their own findings on semantic aspects of working memory, but also neglected syntactic aspects of working memory and computation altogether.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , December 2003 , pp. 735 - 736
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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