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Nature Neuroscience  6, 651 - 652 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nn0703-651

Does Broca's play by the rules?

Gary F Marcus1, Athena Vouloumanos2 & Ivan A Sag3

1  G.F.M. is in the Dept. of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA.

2  A.V. is in the Dept. of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.

3  I.A.S. is in the Dept. of Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to Gary F Marcus gary.marcus@nyu.edu
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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