In the journal article you read: Marcus, Vouloumanos, and Sag (2003) wrote “Does Broca’s play by the rules.” In the study, German-speaking adults learned a small vocabulary and some grammar rules in a foreign language (Japanese or Italian). When asked to judge if novel text sentences followed or violated the rules of the newly learned language, the results revealed that:
a. Both real linguistic-rules and pseudo-linguistic rules activated Broca’s area to a similar degree by the conclusion of the study.
b. There was no evidence that Broca’s area was involved in language acquisition—is essence, this area did not play by the rules.
c. Subjects learned universal grammar-consistent rules more easily than universal grammar-inconsistent rules.
d. A specific subdivision in Broca’s area became more active over time for the real rules, and less active for the pseudo-linguistic rules.