• DOI:10.1162/jocn.1997.9.2.266
Corpus ID: 981612

A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System

@article{Ullman1997AND,
  title={A Neural Dissociation within Language: Evidence that the Mental Dictionary Is Part of Declarative Memory, and that Grammatical Rules Are Processed by the Procedural System},
  author={M. Ullman and S. Corkin and M. Coppola and G. Hickok and J. Growdon and W. Koroshetz and S. Pinker},
  journal={Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience},
  year={1997},
  volume={9},
  pages={266-276}
}

• M. Ullman, S. Corkin, +4 authors S. Pinker
• Published 1997
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Language comprises a lexicon for storing words and a grammar for generating rule-governed forms. Evidence is presented that the lexicon is part of a temporal-parietalhnedial-temporal declarative memory system and that granlmatical rules are processed by a frontamasal-ganglia procedural system. Patients produced past tenses of regular and novel verbs (looked and plagged), which require an -ed-suffixation rule, and irregular verbs (dug), which are retrieved from memory. Word-finding difficulties… Expand

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