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Functional localization in the brain with respect to syntactic processing.

E Zurif·D Swinney·P Prather·T Love
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This report describes some recent examinations of the ability of aphasic patients to construct syntactically governed dependency relations in real time. The data show that Wernicke's patients can link the elements of dependency relations in the same way as neurologically intact subjects, even for sentences that they do not understand. Broca's patients, by contrast, are shown to be unable to create such links, even for sentences that they do understand. These data underline the isolability of this stage of syntactic analysis and they suggest that comprehension limitations statable in syntactic terms can be traced to changes in cortically localizable processing resources.

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Aphasia, BrocaAphasia, WernickeBrainCognitionHumansLanguageLanguage DisordersComparative StudyJournal ArticleResearch Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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E Zurif, D Swinney, P Prather, T Love. 1994. Functional localization in the brain with respect to syntactic processing.. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02146687

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