For this experiment, we are going to use a combination of the p-600 comprehension technique and the new neuroimaging method Fmri. Our goal will be to find how syntax is distinguished or comparable to other linguistic properties. For this experiment, however, we choose to compare syntax with semantics as it is by far the two most related components in speech production and comprehension. Therefore, for this experiment we will give our participants sentences and see how they respond to each stimulus by measuring their brain activity. For this study, we pick the p600 comprehension as our first method as it is capable of being elicited by all types of syntactic phenomena, including grammatical sentences, complex sentences with different thematic and garden path sentences. We realize that although the p-600 comprehension is best in detecting syntactic violations in sentences, it cannot record other cognitive areas that might also become active during language comprehension. Therefore for this study we will also measure Bold signals and record brain activity by using the Fmri multi-voxel wise model In this study, we also decided to use one control group and two experimental groups similar to the idea of a double association test. We will give our participant on the experimental group two distinct stimuli: a senseless sentence and a garden path sentence. Meanwhile, on the control group, we will give our participants only grammatical sentences. Both garden path and senseless sentences are important to this experiment are there are still grammatical sentences, but with issues on context or meaning. Therefore, any stimulation from the p-600 comprehension against these sentences might indicate that the brain possibly favors semantic integrat... ... middle of paper ... ...anguage to be convey, the brain first need to scan all linguistic information and then make an assessment of the stimulus given. After all, the only explanation we can give against possible activated areas to ungrammatical stimulus is that the brain processes all important cues first and then the language properties. Finally, if we find syntax processes to be located both in the temporal and prefrontal regions, then this could suggest that syntax processing is located both Broca’s and Wernicke’s region. This piece of information in particular poses a challenge to previous studies that had both Broca’s and Wernicke’s as the basis for language productions and comprehension. Thus if we find syntax to be distributed around these two regions, we will be challenging not only years of study involving language but also the two most predominant structures involving speech.
In the process of this experiment, there were a total of two bilingual aphasics and eight monolingual aphasics who were tested through nine different EF test batteries to measure their level of EF which includes behavioural inhibition (response inhibition & interference control), working memory, planning/problem solving and reconstitution. The nine EF test batteries consists of the Stroop Color Word Test, Trail Making Test, Self-Ordered Pointing Test, Complex Figures, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Tower of London, Raven’s Progressive Matrices, Five Point Test and Design Fluency. The main focus of the experimentation was to test these 10 different individuals through conversation to investigate their EF profiles. To attain these results, each
Throughout William Gibson's Neuromancer, the text shows many ways of using the syntactic rhetorical strategy. Within the text, many examples show a break in perception or explain quickly areas that span over a long period of time. For all of these reasons Gibson cleverly uses the syntactic approach to allow his readers the freedom to make their own assumptions and to illustrate his plot in this novel Neuromancer.
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NLP comprises three essential elements neuro, linguistic, and programming. Neuro consists of the nervous system through which an experience is received and processed through the five senses. “The importance of neuro lies in listening, observing, and identifying the language pattern of people, and in the normal course, responds in the same manner in line with the principle of mirroring” (Tripathi, 2012). Linguistic consists of language and non-verbal communication approaches which neural interpretations are implied, structured, and given sense. “The eyebrows, the lips, the shoulders, the hands, the legs, fingers all form an integrated team in conveying messages like feeling, response, and even our intentions” (Tripathi, 2012). Therefore, unknowingly one’s body language can expose one’s unconscious thoughts. Programming consists wit...
...lects. The reason this is possible may go back to the early stages of language acquisition. Although we learn to speak English in one particular way, our brain retains the capability to understand English spoken in hundreds, if not thousands of different ways.
In the last few decades, the notion of language and brain has been highlighted in different scientific fields such as: neurology, cognitive science, linguistics biology, technology and finally education.
In linguist and psychologist Noam Chomsky’s Language and Mind, he asserts that a “universal grammar provides a highly restrictive schema to which any human language must conform” (55). The theory of universal grammar that Chomsky proposed states that the ability to comprehend and produce a language is already built in the human brain before birth. Even from an early age, children’s brains are programmed to constantly analyze grammar and syntax. To back up his claim, Chomsky elaborates on “the intrinsic structure of a language-acquisition device” (99).
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