202110.07
Neural Correlates of Learning Nominal Classification Rules: an fMRI study
Posted in RESEARCH
Learning a second language requires not just learning abstract grammatical rules, but rules that rely on language-specific conceptual information. However, previous studies have explored only the learning of abstract grammar rules, and there are little studies investigating the diverse set of grammar rules that rely on conceptual knowledge. Therefore, it is unclear the brain areas involved in learning these conceptual-based rules such as nominal classification rules. In an fMRI study, we found that learning nominal classification rules engages semantic based areas (left middle temporal gyrus) in concjunction with rule-learning based areas (precentral gyrus/left inferior frontal gyrus). I presented the finding of our study at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (virtual edition). I also learned a lot of recent research on semantic cognition through a Symposium called "Semantic knowledge representations in the anerior tempoal lobes and beyond". The 4 presentations in this symposium gave me a good direction for my own research.（Diego)
Learning a second language requires not just learning abstract grammatical rules, but rules that rely on language-specific conceptual information. However, previous studies have explored only the learning of abstract grammar rules, and there are little studies investigating the diverse set of grammar rules that rely on conceptual knowledge. Therefore, it is unclear the brain areas involved in learning these conceptual-based rules such as nominal classification rules. In an fMRI study, we found that learning nominal classification rules engages semantic based areas (left middle temporal gyrus) in concjunction with rule-learning based areas (precentral gyrus/left inferior frontal gyrus). I presented the finding of our study at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (virtual edition). I also learned a lot of recent research on semantic cognition through a Symposium called "Semantic knowledge representations in the anerior tempoal lobes and beyond". The 4 presentations in this symposium gave me a good direction for my own research.（Diego)