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SUBMITTER: Getz H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6201233 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Getz Heidi H Ding Nai N Newport Elissa L EL Poeppel David D
Cognition 20180905
Linguistic units are organized at multiple levels: words combine to form phrases, which combine to form sentences. Ding, Melloni, Zhang, Tian, and Poeppel (2016) discovered that the brain tracks units at each level of hierarchical structure simultaneously. Such tracking requires knowledge of how words and phrases are structurally related. Here we asked how neural tracking emerges as knowledge of phrase structure is acquired. We recorded electrophysiological (MEG) data while adults listened to a ...[more]