Michel Hoen

TL;DR: The study of sequential cognition will provide a new paradigm for the investigation of the neurophysiological bases of language, as it is predicted that impaired syntactic processing will be associated with impairments in corresponding non-linguistic cognitive sequencing tasks.

TL;DR: Results confirm that lexical masking occurs only when some words in the babble are detectable, and suggest that different levels of linguistic information can be extracted from background babble and cause different types of linguistic competition for target-word identification.

TL;DR: The objective of the current research is to outline a functional description of grammatical construction processing based on principles of psycholinguistics, develop a model of how these functions can be implemented in human neurophysiology, and demonstrate the feasibility of the resulting model in processing languages of typologically diverse natures, that is, English, French, and Japanese.

TL;DR: This paper found that function symbol processing elicits a left anterior negative shift between with temporal and spatial characteristics quite similar to the LAN described during function word processing in language, supporting the hypothesis that the LAN reflects the operation of a more general sequence processing capability.

TL;DR: This work proposes a neural network model whose architecture is constrained by the known cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical (CSTC) neuroanatomy of the human language system, and discusses the context of a brain architecture for learning grammatical structure for multiple natural languages, and non-linguistic sequences.