Neural Dissociation within Language: Lexical Memory is Part of Declarative Memory Grammatical Rules are Processed by Procedural System

Declarative Memory System

• Learning & processing of facts, events

• Specialized for arbitrary relations

• Explicit and implicit knowledge

• Medial & lateral temporal-lobe;
frontal regions (BA 45/BA 47, BA 10)

• Modulated by estrogen, acetylcholine

• Genes: BDNF, possibly others

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	The declarative/procedural model claims that Lexicon is dependent on temporal lobe strucutres which also subserve declarative memory; memory for events and associative memory
	on the other hand, grammar is dependent on frontal/basal ganglia circuits which also subserve procedural memory- motor skills and sequence computaitons