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Components of the Language-Ready Brain

“…At most there are algorithms at the interfaces. Psycholinguistic theories can algorithmically model language processing, as Neeleman (2013) discusses, but syntax itself (being composed of operations like Concatenate, Label, and Transfer) has no need for this. Nevertheless, the dynome, with its operations of information segregation and spike timing organization, can in some sense be seen as an algorithmic level, implemented by the cellular structures of the connectome.…”