Questions tagged [neurolinguistics]
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Are there universal "neural signatures" definitive of "first languages"?
If we consider sign language and also communication methods of the deaf-blind, predominantly haptic language I believe, along with oral-audial language, is there data to justify the concept of a "...
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Which brain disorders cause better second language learning?
I heard that people with some types of synesthesia may have advantages for learning second languages. I don't know whether it’s true or not. Which kind of brain disorders cause better second-language ...
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How good are humans at anaphora?
I have been considering what differences or similarities in any properties at all could be found between:
a language where whatever the supposed “deep structure” of a language truly is (like, the ...
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What is meant by "present thinking" in Goldstein's work on aphasia?
I am writing a paper on aphasia and have come across some work by Kurt Goldstein.
Apparently, Goldstein claims that people with aphasia speak without thinking first, and that their speech is not ...
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Linguistics and ChatGPT [closed]
To which (neuro-, psycho- or general) linguistic models and theories of human language recognition and production does ChatGPT (GANs) come closest?
Or why isn't this a valid question?
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Can language reveal how we think? [closed]
I have just started lightly reading about consciousness and, in trying to think about what it is, I couldn't help but notice how simply thinking about the pronoun "I" could shed quite a bit ...
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What is the difference between neurolinguistics and similar fields of study?
What is the difference between neurolinguistics and cognitive linguistics or psycholinguistics?
I am already having trouble understanding the difference between cognitive linguistics and ...
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Does the positivity/negativity of an ERP tell us anything at all?
In neurolinguistics, we come across event-related potentials such as N400 for semantic unexpectedness or P600 for error correction. Is there anything at all, linguistic or not, that we can infer from ...
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A distance on words
I am not an expert in linguistics at all; more of a physicist instead. So I don't know if there are any defined distances on words D(W1, W2) that really represents how the human memory works; for ...
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How are words sorted in brain? [closed]
What is the basic algorithm the brain uses when it's trying to express something? If there's some kind of map of meanings and corresponding sounds, are the closer signals closer in sound (phonetically)...
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Is author profiling based on gender possible for English?
I was recently told by a friend who works in IT that certain neural networks can be trained to predict the age and gender of authors from anonymous texts written by them (cf. arXiv:1707.03764). The ...
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Is it possible to read the narrow IPA transcription of one's native/fluent language as effortlessly and quickly as its conventional orthography?
it seems there's no neurolinguistic limit on how many letters can a language's alphabet have (it varies a lot between languages), the IPA is a huge phonetic alphabet, As of the most recent change in ...
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Where can I find a comprehensive list of priming connections?
Is there a website or a study I could find a detailed list or net of priming connections between words? Here's how I imagine it:
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Paper request: study that correlates distinctive features with neuronal activation
I remember an fMRI study that came out sometime around last year (maybe even 2014) that showed a correspondence between distinctive features and neuronal activation. I can't for the life of me find it....
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Is there any neurological/biological evidence of Merge?
To my understanding, there are some linguists that would claim Merge is a cognitive mechanism which came about suddenly at some point in our evolutionary history. Is there any neurological evidence to ...
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Can Wernicke's aphasia lead to grammar deterioration?
Speech often (always?) deteriorates for people with post-lingual deafness. This presumably occurs because of insufficient auditory feedback.
Given that people with Wernicke's aphasia cannot ...
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What can dialectology contribute to psycho- or neurolinguistics - or the other way around?
Dialectology is the study of geographical varieties of a language. The study of (for example) older dialects of English (such as the dialect spoken in the Northeast of England around Newcastle) and ...
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Is audio-processing (auditory) brain cortex activated when human is reading non-phonetic alphabets?
Excuse my virginity in linguistics, but it seems to me that phonetic alphabets are "only" protocols for audio compression into visual input/output media, optimized for human throat sounds.
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Is it possible to become a native speaker of another language for someone that already has a mother tongue?
Are there any studies/researches on fields like neurolinguistics(or any other fields) to allow people (can be via drugs, psycho training..whatever) to become a native speaker of another language? Is ...
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How does alcohol affect the ability to speak a second language?
From my own experience, drinking alcohol has both positive and negative effects to the ability of speaking a second language. On the one hand, it facilitates the process, mainly because one gets more ...
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