Hacking Neuro-Syntax Day 1

The frontal lobe mostly does

• judgment, creativity, planning and problem solving

• help in seeing things

• help in balance-maintaining

• hearing

Posterior fossa tumors in children affects language development. Do you know where is its affected area in the brain?

• frontal lobe

• parietal lobe

• subcortical regions

• cerebellum

Low-grade gliomas tell us about

• language re-organization in the brain

• language specific regions

• language laterlization

• language centralization

Which instrument does not collect eye-fixation points?

• Diffusion tensor imaging

• Transcrenial Magnetic Stimulation

• Virtual Reality

• Eye-tracker

Nancy Kanwisher is credited with finding the biological pinnings of Fusiform Face Area. What is the other function of this region?

Which is your favourite language property in the brain?

Therapy dogs have been used in helping post-aphasia rehab. Do you know the most common breed used?

Can language levels be organized differently in the brain from theoretical syntax?

• Yes

• No

• only for phonemes

• only for syntax-semantics-pragmatics

Which of the following can be organized differently in the brain from theoretical syntax?

• Classifier

• Garden path sentences

• Determiner phrase

• Argument structure

• Gender modifications affecting noun and verb phrases