Brilliant video! Really well produced and easy to understand. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about language and the brain. I have a couple of questions: 1. Where did you get that brain model? I want one myself! 2. Do you not believe it’s a bit of a stretch to claim that generative, hierarchical syntactic structures are represented in the brain? Most of my syntactician friends don’t claim that because they believe it’s farfetched. Tree structures are incredibly complicated and the work of what’s basically anthropological linguistics modifying theoretical constraints on the grammar for decades - they’re not necessarily meant to represent mental syntax and I’d argue it’s impossible to test whether syntax trees are represented in the brain anyway. 3. One aspect of language you (and many other neurolinguists) haven’t touched on is the role of sensorimotor systems in language processing and production. The causal role of the motor cortex in semantic processing, for example, and more general influence of embodiment in language, ought to be integrated into more general neurolinguistic pedagogy!
1. Amazon! Funny enough, one of my friends had this brain model on her desk, and I was jealous. So I had to get my own! 2. I don't think it's a stretch! I think there's a lot of evidence that the mental representations we generate are in fact hierarchically nested representations built by the Merge operation. This idea was proposed by Noam Chomsky, and a large number of neurolinguists believe in it! (Although there are definitely different schools of thought) 3. Chomsky includes the sensorimotor system as part of the Faculty of Language in the broad sense (but not the narrow sense). Of course Chomsky is very focused on the narrow version, which only includes the core computations that generate hierarchical structure. But a lot of neurolinguists (myself included!) are interested in how the sensorimotor system interacts with this core computational system. You're right that it doesn't usually integrate into general linguistics courses, but I try to incorporate it into courses I teach on psycho- and neurolinguistics.
As someone in their late 20s with childhood aphasia, I want to say thank you for this video and providing your references. I had MenB when I was 6 months old and had significant difficulties with expressive language growing up and I still struggle with some aspects. Writing for me is like trying to solve a sudoku. I know the rules but I can’t instinctively lay down my words in a way that makes perfect sense without having a good think about it. Having a deficit in sentence sequencing is a good way to explain what’s going wrong. So thanks again!
Great science communication. Interesting, clear and engaging. As for the accuracy, as someone with only a weak understanding of this topic I can't evaluate it, but your video inspires confidence thanks to its clarity and referring to the history and sources. In short I'm commenting hoping it will help you with the algorithm and help this channel grow!
Wow , Fascinating. I am currently reading Henri Bergson(1859-1941), the french philosopher , book Matter and Memory (1896). And the man does what you might call a philosophy of psychology based on the unknowns of how Brain physiology creates,perceive and store memory and language ; on that regard he quotes heavily from Wernicke ,Wundt,James ,Ribot , Charcot, etc. The edition i'm reading is from 2005 and there are notes which shows where Bergon's speculation came out right and other places wrong. Either way, this book reignited my amateurish interest in Cogni sci and led me to this video ; Glad it did . Keep up the Good work
@@LanguageofMind there are a number of things but the 2 biggest I would say would be to anticipate that neurones work by way synapses ; at the time the neuron theory wasn't yet settled by Charles Sherrington discovery in 1897 and the Camillo Golgi(reticularist)and Santiago Cajal(neuronist) debate was still on , in fact the term "neuron"(1891) had only been coined 5years earlier by a German named Heinrich Waldeyer ; That's for the neurological part . On the psychological part ,he anticipated some of the discoveries of the 20th century such as that memory isn't as he caricatures it "an archive box" in the Brain but that it has different patterns or what we call today procedural and declarative memory thus anticipating a number of discoveries such as that of Bridgit Mendler with patient H.M . So yeah quite a visionary guy . Even though he did get some things wrong ; his notion of perception relied on a view of Time that was antiquated and got him in quarrel with Einstein , and his notion of number and mathematics got him in quarrel with Bertrand Russell , and last but not least his notion of cognition and recognition got him in quarrel with the founder of cognitive psychology himself Jean Piaget (although Piaget was born the year Matter and Memory (1896) so he criticised his work with way more data at hand on Brain physiology and then Bergson had when he began his writing.
@@LanguageofMind is there a book , available online for less than/or around 40$/35€(sorry Belgian here, I calculate in euro currency), that you would recommend as intro into neurolinguistics?
@@mutabazimichael8404 this is the book I use in my neurolinguistics class, I think it's a good introduction: www.amazon.com/Language-Brain-Slim-Guide-Neurolinguistics/dp/0198814755
Thank you so much for this insightful update on the language model. I studied cog sci but don't work close to the neuroscience field - but it's always fascinating to get an update on these topics. Great video!
Fantastic work! I learned that Broca's area is for sequence processing! I have a question: What does it mean to say "we have many options when we go from sequence to structure"?
Matchin and Hickok argue that Broca's is not highly involved during comprehension, based on aphasia evidence. I think this is probably because you can get decent comprehension by skipping the parsing stage and building a structure from incoming words. Kind of like shallow structure parsing
So it's kind of like what happens when you are hearing a simple-structured sentence that barely involves movements/transforms from deep structure to surface structure?
Brilliant video! Really well produced and easy to understand. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about language and the brain. I have a couple of questions:
1. Where did you get that brain model? I want one myself!
2. Do you not believe it’s a bit of a stretch to claim that generative, hierarchical syntactic structures are represented in the brain? Most of my syntactician friends don’t claim that because they believe it’s farfetched. Tree structures are incredibly complicated and the work of what’s basically anthropological linguistics modifying theoretical constraints on the grammar for decades - they’re not necessarily meant to represent mental syntax and I’d argue it’s impossible to test whether syntax trees are represented in the brain anyway.
3. One aspect of language you (and many other neurolinguists) haven’t touched on is the role of sensorimotor systems in language processing and production. The causal role of the motor cortex in semantic processing, for example, and more general influence of embodiment in language, ought to be integrated into more general neurolinguistic pedagogy!
1. Amazon! Funny enough, one of my friends had this brain model on her desk, and I was jealous. So I had to get my own!
2. I don't think it's a stretch! I think there's a lot of evidence that the mental representations we generate are in fact hierarchically nested representations built by the Merge operation. This idea was proposed by Noam Chomsky, and a large number of neurolinguists believe in it! (Although there are definitely different schools of thought)
3. Chomsky includes the sensorimotor system as part of the Faculty of Language in the broad sense (but not the narrow sense). Of course Chomsky is very focused on the narrow version, which only includes the core computations that generate hierarchical structure. But a lot of neurolinguists (myself included!) are interested in how the sensorimotor system interacts with this core computational system. You're right that it doesn't usually integrate into general linguistics courses, but I try to incorporate it into courses I teach on psycho- and neurolinguistics.
Holy cow, how do you not have more views/subscribers? The quality of this is better than that of way larger channels
Thanks!
I agree. There's animations, camera angle changes, music - overall top notch production value.
this needs more attention
As someone in their late 20s with childhood aphasia, I want to say thank you for this video and providing your references.
I had MenB when I was 6 months old and had significant difficulties with expressive language growing up and I still struggle with some aspects.
Writing for me is like trying to solve a sudoku. I know the rules but I can’t instinctively lay down my words in a way that makes perfect sense without having a good think about it.
Having a deficit in sentence sequencing is a good way to explain what’s going wrong. So thanks again!
Judging from this comment, I think you've found a great way to overcome it! Your writing is great, very crisp and clear. Thanks for your kind words!
Interesting channel! I hope you make a video about ADHD
typical cognitive neuroscience, classical models are always not exhaustive, as it happens) great video
so unbelievably underrated, keep going!
This is extremely educating.
Super interesting and informative video. Thank you 🙏🏼
I discovered this channel just yesterday and immediately subscribed! Thank you for the videos
Thank you!
Great science communication. Interesting, clear and engaging. As for the accuracy, as someone with only a weak understanding of this topic I can't evaluate it, but your video inspires confidence thanks to its clarity and referring to the history and sources.
In short I'm commenting hoping it will help you with the algorithm and help this channel grow!
Thank you!
Very refreshing to see a different take on the whole topic itself. Loved the video!
Wow , Fascinating.
I am currently reading Henri Bergson(1859-1941), the french philosopher , book Matter and Memory (1896). And the man does what you might call a philosophy of psychology based on the unknowns of how Brain physiology creates,perceive and store memory and language ; on that regard he quotes heavily from Wernicke ,Wundt,James ,Ribot ,
Charcot, etc.
The edition i'm reading is from 2005 and there are notes which shows where Bergon's speculation came out right and other places wrong.
Either way, this book reignited my amateurish interest in Cogni sci and led me to this video ; Glad it did .
Keep up the Good work
That's interesting! I wonder what he got right.
@@LanguageofMind there are a number of things but the 2 biggest I would say would be to anticipate that neurones work by way synapses ; at the time the neuron theory wasn't yet settled by Charles Sherrington discovery in 1897 and the Camillo Golgi(reticularist)and Santiago Cajal(neuronist) debate was still on , in fact the term "neuron"(1891) had only been coined 5years earlier by a German named Heinrich Waldeyer ;
That's for the neurological part .
On the psychological part ,he anticipated some of the discoveries of the 20th century such as that memory isn't as he caricatures it "an archive box" in the Brain but that it has different patterns or what we call today procedural and declarative memory thus anticipating a number of discoveries such as that of Bridgit Mendler with patient H.M .
So yeah quite a visionary guy .
Even though he did get some things wrong ; his notion of perception relied on a view of Time that was antiquated and got him in quarrel with Einstein , and his notion of number and mathematics got him in quarrel with Bertrand Russell , and last but not least his notion of cognition and recognition got him in quarrel with the founder of cognitive psychology himself Jean Piaget (although Piaget was born the year Matter and Memory (1896) so he criticised his work with way more data at hand on Brain physiology and then Bergson had when he began his writing.
@@LanguageofMind is there a book , available online for less than/or around 40$/35€(sorry Belgian here, I calculate in euro currency), that you would recommend as intro into neurolinguistics?
@@mutabazimichael8404 this is the book I use in my neurolinguistics class, I think it's a good introduction: www.amazon.com/Language-Brain-Slim-Guide-Neurolinguistics/dp/0198814755
@@LanguageofMind Thanks
Thank you so much for this insightful update on the language model. I studied cog sci but don't work close to the neuroscience field - but it's always fascinating to get an update on these topics. Great video!
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Fantastic video, very well explained!
Could learning a new language help to strenghten the prefrontal cortex and therefore help to manage ADHD?
Fantastic work! I learned that Broca's area is for sequence processing! I have a question: What does it mean to say "we have many options when we go from sequence to structure"?
Matchin and Hickok argue that Broca's is not highly involved during comprehension, based on aphasia evidence. I think this is probably because you can get decent comprehension by skipping the parsing stage and building a structure from incoming words. Kind of like shallow structure parsing
So it's kind of like what happens when you are hearing a simple-structured sentence that barely involves movements/transforms from deep structure to surface structure?
@@chaoh2258 Yes, I think so!