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

Procedural Memory System

• Learning & control of cognitive and
motor “skills” (e.g., riding a bicycle)

• Specialized for sequences

• Implicit knowledge

• Left frontal (BA 44/premotor)-basal ganglia
circuits; superior temporal cortex

• Modulated by dopamine

• Genes: possibly DAT, 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