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Nonlinguistic transformation processing in agrammatic aphasia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Peter F. Dominey
Affiliation:
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 69675 BRON Cedex, Francedominey@isc.cnrs.fr www.isc.cnrs.fr
Taïssia Lelekov
Affiliation:
Institut des Sciences Cognitives, 69675 BRON Cedex, Francedominey@isc.cnrs.fr www.isc.cnrs.fr

Abstract

Grodzinsky's characterization of the syntactic function of Broca's area is convincing, but his argument that this transformation processing capability is specific to language is less so. Based on predictions from simulation studies of sequence learning, we report a correlation between agrammatic patients' impairments in (a) syntactic comprehension, and (b) nonlinguistic sequence transformation processing, indicating the existence of a nonlinguistic correlate of agrammatic aphasia.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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