Advances in Biolinguistics - The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
1 Beyond the cortex It is common to come across statements like the following when trying to characterize what makes human cogni ...
exploring the neural basis of higher cognitive functions. That is, many studies ignore the role of subcortical structures.” But ...
2 The thalamus at the center A series of considerations have led us to reanalyze and reemphasize the impor- tance of the thalamu ...
features of the so-called “default mode” network of the brain, of which the thalamus is recognized as a key node. The default mo ...
strongly associated with the parietal lobe (dorsal pulvinar). This strikes us as particularly relevant, as the pulvinar has been ...
(see, e.g., Miller and Buschman 2007, Antzoulatos and Mil ler 2011, Kotz and Schwartze 2010, Ullman 2001, 2004, 2006), the th al ...
to tune the oscillations of the other subcortical structures. From this perspec- tive, its efferent role can be regarded as sett ...
correlation between thalamus volume and cognitive abilities; see, e.g., Scharinger et al. 2014.) 4 The thalamus, lang uage, and ...
major/treatment-resistan t depression (Greicius et al. 2007), Cerebral Autoso- mal-Domi nant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infar ...
involving the thalamus and could therefore serve as convenient biomarkers, and eventually provide robust targets for efficient t ...
in the next section). But likely due to its evolutionary novelty, the network’s balance is fragile, with even subtle structural ...
It is for this reason that many of the disorders discussed so far are called “neu- rodevelopmental disconnection syndromes” (Shi ...
reticular nucleus, which receives overlapping projections from prefrontal cortex and higher-order sensory cortical areas, may al ...
gamma oscillations, and theta activity has been proposed to support large-scale integration of subsystems serving the formation ...
disturb activity-dependent circuit selection during further development.” Syn- chronization, then, is not only relevant during n ...
mappings of complex functions like “language processing” have largely been replaced by explanations of regional brain function i ...
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