A mechanism for the cortical computation of hierarchical linguistic structure.

Biological systems often detect species-specific signals in the environment. In humans, speech and language are species-specific signals of fundamental biological importance. To detect the linguistic signal, human brains must form hierarchical representations from a sequence of perceptual inputs dis...

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Main Authors: Andrea E Martin, Leonidas A A Doumas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5333798?pdf=render