Neural Correlates of Morphology Acquisition through a Statistical Learning Paradigm.

ABSTRACT: The neural basis of statistical learning as it occurs over time was explored with stimuli drawn from a natural language (Russian nouns). The input reflected the "rules" for marking categories of gendered nouns, without making participants explicitly aware of the nature of what they were to learn. Participants were scanned while listening to a series of gender-marked nouns during four sequential scans, and were tested for their learning immediately after each scan. Although participants were not told the nature of the learning task, they exhibited learning after their initial exposure to the stimuli. Independent component analysis of the brain data revealed five task-related sub-networks. Unlike prior statistical learning studies of word segmentation, this morphological learning task robust

SUBMITTER: Sandoval M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5529410 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature