作者：Ding,N.; Melloni,L.; Zhang,H.; Tian,X.; Poeppel,D.
来源：NATURE neuroscience http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.4186.html
The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller elements can be combined into larger structures based on a grammatical system, resulting in a hierarchy of linguistic units, e.g., words, phrases, and sentences. How the brain parses and represents such structures is a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. This study demonstrates that a hierarchy of neural processing timescales underlies grammar-based internal construction of hierarchical linguistic structure.
