The Dorsal Rather than Ventral Pathway Better Reflects Individual Syntactic Abilities in Second Language
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The Dorsal Rather than Ventral Pathway Better Reflects Individual Syntactic Abilities in Second Language
The left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) has been reported to be critically involved in syntactic processing, not only in first language (L1), but in second language (L2). Indeed, the leftward lateralization of the IFG has been shown to be correlated with the performance of a syntactic task in L2. Given that posterior language-related regions are systematically connected with the left IFG, the nex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00295