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¹Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth, Houston, TX, USA.

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Summary

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The Representation, Operation, Structure, Encoding (ROSE) architecture unifies symbolic and subsymbolic neural processing for hierarchical syntax. This framework supports flexible language parsing and refines the definition of the brain's core language network.

Keywords:

Syntax causal emergence connectionist language network minimalist grammar parsing symbolic

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Cognitive Science

Background:

Natural language syntax processing involves both symbolic and subsymbolic representations.
Existing neurocomputational models struggle to integrate these representational levels for hierarchical syntax.

Purpose of the Study:

To present the Representation, Operation, Structure, Encoding (ROSE) neurocomputational architecture.
To discuss how ROSE reconciles the neural code for hierarchical syntax with predictive processing.
To propose ROSE as a scaffold for a 'Universal Neural Grammar'.

Main Methods:

Building upon the ROSE architecture, which integrates symbolic (phrase structure) and subsymbolic (probabilistic) processing.
Hypothesizing cross-frequency coupling as the interface between representational domains.
Analyzing ROSE's potential for implementing minimalist grammar parsers.

Main Results:

ROSE provides a unified framework for hierarchical syntax and predictive language processing.
It suggests a more restricted 'core language network' involved in specific parsing operations.
ROSE enables multi-scale modeling of emergent linguistic complexity.

Conclusions:

ROSE offers a neurocomputational infrastructure for real-time language processing.
It provides constraints for a unified model of natural language syntax.
ROSE serves as a tentative scaffold for a 'Universal Neural Grammar'.