Functional Specialisation of the Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex

Poldrack

The current understanding of the structure of languageprocessing distinguishes a set of componentlinguistic functions: these include separable processesrelated to speech sounds (phonological processing); tothe visual structure of written words (orthographicprocesses); to the meaning of linguistic tokens (semanticprocessing); to the structure of complex linguisticforms (syntactic processing); to the integration of phonological,semantic, and syntactic aspects of words (lexicalprocessing); and to the programming of speechmotor acts (articulatory processing).