Publication Date:
2011-02-09
Description:
There are works in science that become important not only for the relevance of the empirical and theoretical findings they originally provide but also because they come at a special moment and help the scientific community to disentangle the debate when things start to get involuted and research paths tend to go in circles. The work presented by Pallier et al. in PNAS (1) certainly meets this special requirement: quantitative neuropsychological data are offered to support the hypothesis that words are combined into hierarchical structures (i.e., constituents) rather than being linearly organized. To arrive at such a conclusion, the authors...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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