ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests a neural mechanism that allows declarative knowledge to influence and become procedural knowledge and also proposes that this same system allows declarative knowledge of correct rules to influence and remediate fossilized structures encoded in the basal ganglia system for procedural knowledge. Schumann attempts to give a neurobiological explanation for variation in human mental and physical abilities and for variation in aptitude for second language learning. It proposes a neurobiology for motivation. The chapter defined the neurobiological mechanism for such appraisal. Crowell lays out the anatomical and cellular bases for memory formation. Within that framework, she offers several important hypotheses about how the hippocampal formation in general and long-term potentiation in particular may be involved in second language learning.
