Do the elements of a combinatorial category constitute an equivalence class? Behavioral and neurobiological evidences

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Published: Aug 26, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v11.n2.20706
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artificial grammar, equivalence relations, evoked potentials, function transfer

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Ángel Tabullo
Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA), Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT), CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina
Alberto Yorio
Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Silvano Zanutto
Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Alejandro Javier Wainselboim
Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA), Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT), CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

Abstract

It has been proposed that there is a relation between the capacity to acquire language and equivalence relations. Previous studies show that members of an equivalence class transfer combinatorial properties within an artificial grammar. Reciprocally, in the present work we analyzed whether, after training in an artificial grammar, stimuli with the same combinatorial properties verify properties of an equivalence class. Results show that stimuli of a same combinatorial class form a functional class that verifies the properties of equivalence (i.e. reflexivity; symmetry and transitivity). Processing these relations generates an N400 potential that is related to the number of nodal stimuli between stimuli pairs. This result could be explained in terms of a proactive system that extracts and retains statistical regularities of stimuli; connects new stimuli with relevant representations previously acquired and employs these associations to generate predictions of future events

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Do the elements of a combinatorial category constitute an equivalence class? Behavioral and neurobiological evidences. (2019). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 11(2), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v11.n2.20706
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Author Biographies

Ángel Tabullo, Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA), Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT), CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

Investigador Asistente, CIC Conicet

Alberto Yorio, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profesor Neurofisiología, Facultad de Psicología, UBA

Silvano Zanutto, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Investigador Independiente, CIC Conicet

Alejandro Javier Wainselboim, Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales (INCIHUSA), Centro Científico Tecnológico (CCT), CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina

Investigador Adjunto CIC

Grupo de Lingüística y Neurobiología experimental del Lenguaje

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Do the elements of a combinatorial category constitute an equivalence class? Behavioral and neurobiological evidences. (2019). Argentinean Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 11(2), 23-35. https://doi.org/10.32348/1852.4206.v11.n2.20706

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