Limited but specific engagement of the mature language network during linguistic statistical learning.

ABSTRACT: Statistical learning (SL) is the ability to detect and learn regularities from input and is foundational to language acquisition. Despite the dominant role of SL as a theoretical construct for language development, there is a lack of direct evidence supporting the shared neural substrates underlying language processing and SL. It is also not clear whether the similarities, if any, are related to linguistic processing, or statistical regularities in general. The current study tests whether the brain regions involved in natural language processing are similarly recruited during auditory, linguistic SL. Twenty-two adults performed an auditory linguistic SL task, an auditory nonlinguistic SL task, and a passive story listening task as their neural activation was monitored. Within the language

SUBMITTER: Schneider JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10987970 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature