Theories of Sentence Processing and the Neuroscience of Language: Special Session at the 2013 CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing

影响当前心理语言学研究的认知理论在很大程度上是基于非神经数据和理论结构。这些理论的基础是形式化的语法语言学模型以及记忆、注意力和学习的认知模型。然而，鉴于语言处理必须在物理结构中进行，开发在生物学上可信并与认知神经科学中的其他理论兼容的理论是至关重要的。第26届纽约州立大学人类句子处理年会将于2013年3月在南卡罗来纳大学举行，其中将包括一个特别会议，以解决这个问题：主要基于语言学证据的语言基本架构，或主要基于统计约束模型的20世纪50年代和90年代发展的语言基本架构，能否在大脑成像、大脑刺激和复杂的认知神经心理学时代生存下来？如果不是，语言系统的哪些新体系结构与从整个相关证据--包括语言、行为和生物数据--中了解到的内容兼容？特别会议将召集六位杰出的研究人员审议这一根本问题。之所以选择这个特殊的群体，是因为除了传统神经心理学之外，还有一系列主要的认知神经科学方法，而且演讲者对语言结构和处理采取了不同的理论观点。特别会议将接触尽可能广泛的与会者，特别是对认知和语言的神经生物学方法感兴趣的年轻科学家。特别会议还将有助于确保研究语言的神经科学家进行的资源密集型研究将产生尽可能广泛的影响，并将开始认真地为心理语言学所有领域的基本理论提供信息。

The cognitively based theories that influence current psycholinguistic research are based largely on non-neural data and theoretical constructs. The foundations of these theories are formal linguistic models of grammar as well as cognitive models of memory, attention, and learning. However, given that language processing must take place in a physical structure, it is critical to develop theories that are biologically plausible and compatible with other theories in the cognitive neurosciences. The 26th Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, to be held in March 2013 at the University of South Carolina, will include a Special Session to address this question: Can the basic architecture of language developed in the 1950s and 1960s that was based primarily on linguistic evidence, or in the 1980s and 1990s based on statistical constraint-based models, survive in the era of brain imaging, brain stimulation, and sophisticated cognitive neuropsychology? If not, what new architectures for the language system are compatible with what has been learned from the entire range of relevant evidence--including linguistic, behavioral, and biological data? The Special Session will bring together six prominent researchers to consider this fundamental issue. This particular group was chosen because a range of major cognitive neuroscience methodologies besides traditional neuropsychology is represented, and because the speakers take diverse theoretical perspectives on linguistic architectures and processing. The Special Session will make contact with the widest possible spectrum of conference attendees, but particularly with younger scientists with interests in neurobiological approaches to cognition and language. The Special Session will also help to ensure that the resource-intensive research undertaken by neuroscientists studying language will have as broad an impact as possible and will begin to seriously inform fundamental theorizing in all areas of psycholinguistics.