Languages may all share and be constrained by a universal grammar. A new study shows that Broca's area (long thought to participate in grammatical aspects of language) becomes increasingly active as participants acquire rules from a foreign language, but not as they acquire comparable rules that are inconsistent with real languages. Could Broca's area be a neural substrate for universal grammar?
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Marcus, G., Vouloumanos, A. & Sag, I. Does Broca's play by the rules?. Nat Neurosci 6, 651–652 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0703-651
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