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Don't forget the neurobiology: An experimental approach to linguistic representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2017

Peter Hagoort
Peter Hagoort*
Affiliation:
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands. peter.hagoort@donders.ru.nlwww.mpi.nl
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Abstract

Acceptability judgments are no longer acceptable as the holy grail for testing the nature of linguistic representations. Experimental and quantitative methods should be used to test theoretical claims in psycholinguistics. These methods should include not only behavior, but also the more recent possibilities to probe the neural codes for language-relevant representations.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e292
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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