The „narrow faculty“ and Broca's area
M Musso, A Schneider, C Büchel, C Weiller · Aktuelle Neurologie · 2008 · Heft 09
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Zusammenfassung
Language is a complex specialized skill, which develops in the child spontaneously is qualitatively the same in every individual and is distinct from more general abilities to process information or behave intelligently. Except for some constraints regarding music production we could substitute music for language and the characteristics would apply as well. Particularly music appears to be organised like language in a syntactic architecture with hierarchical and recursive structuring between its elements. Several lines of evidence suggest that the left inferior frontal gyrus is predetermined for language. With t…