TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurobiological roots of language in primate audition
T2 - Common computational properties
AU - Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, Ina
AU - Schlesewsky, Matthias
AU - Small, Steven L.
AU - Rauschecker, Josef P.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Sarah Tune and Phillip Alday for helpful discussions on this line of research as well as three anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on previous versions of this manuscript. The research reported here was supported by grants from the LOEWE program of the German state of Hesse (grant III L 4–518/70.004 to I.B.-S.), the German Research Foundation (grants TRR 135/1 C05 to I.B.-S. and SCHL544/6-1 to M.S.), the National Science Foundation (grants BCS-0519127 and OISE-0730255 to J.P.R.) and the National Institutes of Health (grants R01DC03489 and R01NS052494 to J.P.R.; R01DC-R01-3378 and P01HD040605-8228 to S.L.S.) and with partial support of the Technische Universität München – Institute for Advanced Study, funded by the German Excellence Initiative and the European Union Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement n° 291763 (J.P.R.).
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© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Here, we present a new perspective on an old question: how does the neurobiology of human language relate to brain systems in nonhuman primates? We argue that higher-order language combinatorics, including sentence and discourse processing, can be situated in a unified, cross-species dorsal-ventral streams architecture for higher auditory processing, and that the functions of the dorsal and ventral streams in higher-order language processing can be grounded in their respective computational properties in primate audition. This view challenges an assumption, common in the cognitive sciences, that a nonhuman primate model forms an inherently inadequate basis for modeling higher-level language functions.
AB - Here, we present a new perspective on an old question: how does the neurobiology of human language relate to brain systems in nonhuman primates? We argue that higher-order language combinatorics, including sentence and discourse processing, can be situated in a unified, cross-species dorsal-ventral streams architecture for higher auditory processing, and that the functions of the dorsal and ventral streams in higher-order language processing can be grounded in their respective computational properties in primate audition. This view challenges an assumption, common in the cognitive sciences, that a nonhuman primate model forms an inherently inadequate basis for modeling higher-level language functions.
KW - Auditory objects
KW - Dual pathways
KW - Language
KW - Nonhuman primate model
KW - Sequence processing
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2014.12.008
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2014.12.008
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25600585
AN - SCOPUS:84933677017
VL - 19
SP - 142
EP - 150
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
SN - 1364-6613
IS - 3
ER -