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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2016
Humans process language with their neurons. Memory in neurons is supported by neural firing and by short- and long-term synaptic weight change; the emergent behaviour of neurons, synchronous firing, and cell assembly dynamics is also a form of memory. As the language signal moves to later stages, it is processed with different mechanisms that are slower but more persistent.
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The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language
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