The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

Echo State Networks and Liquid State Machines introduced a new paradigm in artificial
recurrent neural network (RNN) training, where an RNN (the reservoir) is generated …

The structure of the brain and the nature of evolution suggest that, despite its uniqueness,
language likely depends on brain systems that also subserve other functions. The …

Memory is fleeting. New material rapidly obliterates previous material. How, then, can the
brain deal successfully with the continual deluge of linguistic input? We argue that, to deal …

The article analyzes the neural and functional grounding of language skills as well as their
emergence in hominid evolution, hypothesizing stages leading from abilities known to exist …

Action and perception are functionally linked in the brain, but a hotly debated question is
whether perception and comprehension of stimuli depend on motor circuits. Brain language …

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has been explained by two broad classes of
hypotheses, which posit either a deficit specific to grammar, or a non-linguistic processing …

This paper explores a variety of different versions of the thesis that natural language is
involved in human thinking. It distinguishes amongst strong and weak forms of this thesis …

Behavioural and neurophysiological evidence convincingly establish that the left
hemisphere is dominant for motor skills that are carried out with either hand or those that …

The prefrontal cortex subserves executive control, ie, the organization of action or thought in
relation to internal goals. This brain region hosts a system of executive processes extending …