Leivada, Evangelia (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the nature and limits of variation across different (i) linguistic phenotypes and (ii) cognitive phenotypes, showing that a strong parallel exists between the ...
Alamri, Saleh (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Humans display distinct unlimited capacity to produce expressions in language and use them flexibly in language processing. This characteristic of human language allows speakers to use novel, flexible, ...
Castillo, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
This dissertation proposes that the frontotemporal network involved in the neural substrate of language processing is as a subset of a domain-general system mediated by predictive processing mechanisms. ...