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Sentence comprehension in Broca's aphasia: A critique of the evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Rita Sloan Berndt
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201 rberndt@umaryland.edu

Abstract

The argument that Broca's area is preferentially involved in specific syntactic operations is based on a strong assertion regarding patterns of sentence comprehension found among patients with Broca's aphasia. This assertion is shown to be largely inconsistent with the available evidence from published studies, which indicates that only a subgroup of Broca patients demonstrate the target pattern.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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