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A redefinition of the syndrome of Broca's aphasia: Implications for a neuropsychological model of language
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A critical review of the literature provides the basis for a redefinition of the syndrome that considerably broadens its classical description, and the argument is advanced that the focus of neuropsychological explanation should be on theoretically separable psychological mechanisms that might be disrupted in relative isolation from other components in conditions of focal brain damage.Abstract:
A neuropsychological theory is offered to account for the syndrome of Broca's aphasia. A critical review of the literature, with emphasis on recent research, provides the basis for a redefinition of the syndrome that considerably broadens its classical description. The argument is advanced that the focus of neuropsychological explanation should be on theoretically separable psychological mechanisms that might be disrupted in relative isolation from other components in conditions of focal brain damage, rather than on isolated units of aphasic performance. The symptoms that characterize Broca's aphasia are explained as predictable behavioral manifestations of a central disruption of the syntactic parsing component of the language System, coupled with a (theoretically independent) articulatory deficit that affects only the speech output System. The neuroanatomical implications of this argument are considered within the framework of the classical “strong localizationist” hypothesis.read more
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Towards a neural basis of auditory sentence processing.
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The assessment of aphasia and related disorders
TL;DR: McAlpine, Lumsden, and Acheson's reappraisal is an essential reference for the practising neurologist and the new edition makes important modification of and changes in emphasis from the edition of 1965.
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Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension.
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The neurology of syntax: language use without Broca's area.
TL;DR: Five empirical arguments are presented: experiments in sentence comprehension, cross-linguistic considerations, grammaticality and plausibility judgments, real-time processing of complex sentences, and rehabilitation, which indicate that language is a distinct, modularly organized neurological entity.
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Sensitivity to grammatical structure in so-called agrammatic aphasics
TL;DR: It is suggested that the sentence comprehension disturbances in these patients do not reflect loss of the capacity to recover syntactic structure, and accounts of the comprehension deficit in agrammatism that implicate a failure to exploit information carried by the closed class vocabulary are called seriously into question.
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Harold Goodglass,Edith Kaplan +1 more
TL;DR: This small volume is designed as an introduction to the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Test and deals briefly with the authors' concept of aphasia as a neuropsychological, psycholinguistic phenomena.
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