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DESCRIPTION:Syntactic ability (that is\, the capacity for productive comb
 inatorial use of syntagmatic units) is considered by many frameworks to 
 be the hallmark of linguistic ability in humans. Much of the neurocognit
 ive literature in the last decades has addressed the localization and hy
 pothesized on the computational underpinnings for syntax in the human br
 ain (Friederici et al.\, 2017\; Martins et al.\, 2019). However\, within
  this research\, syntax has often been conceptualized as (and therefore 
 assumed to be) a separate function. This translates as assuming a specia
 lized brain network\, uniquely designed for the purpose of syntactic tas
 ks. This theoretical framework also often implies that syntax is likely 
 to have emerged as an exclusively human evolutionary trait\, which shoul
 d appear reflected in cortical specialization.\n\nEmbodied approaches in
  the neuroscience of language have taken a critical view at this posture
  (Pulvermüller & Fadiga\, 2010)\, claiming that syntactic ability is not
  to be thought of as a purely independent cognitive function in the brai
 n. Rather\, data has been piling up (Iriki & Taoka\, 2012\; Stout & Cham
 inade\, 2012\; Roby-Brami et al.\, 2011) in the direction of possible sh
 ared neuronal ressources between the so-called praxic system (fine motor
  function planning and execution) and syntactic computations in the huma
 n brain. Moreover\, within this line of hypotheses\, evolutionary models
  have been put forward to account for the overlap in cortical localizati
 on responsible for the planning and execution for these two functions.\n
 \nThis talk outlines a novel research proposal within the embodied hypot
 hesis framework\, which we are currently developing at the DDL laborator
 y (Lyon\, France) under the supervision of Alice Roy. More specifically\
 , I take on the understudied issue of the link between motor causal sche
 mas and causative structures in syntax\, as a window to account for the 
 apparent neural reuse observed between praxic tasks\, in particular tool
  use\, and syntactic abilities.
URL:https://68stuts.bildungs.cafe/events/471.html
SUMMARY:Language and praxis in the brain: an embodied approach to syntact
 ic competence
ORGANIZER:stuts68
LOCATION:stuts68 - Odille Morison
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