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The gratuitous relationship between Broca's aphasia and Broca's area

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Nina F. Dronkers
Nina F. Dronkers
Affiliation:
Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA 94553 and the Departments of Neurology and Linguistics, University of California, Davis, CA 94516. [email protected]
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Abstract

Many authors assume that Broca's area subserves the functions that are lost in patients with Broca's aphasia. This commentary attempts to clarify the relationship between Broca's area and Broca's aphasia and suggests that statements about the neurology of patients' specific language functions might be better supported by their individual structural neuroimaging data.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 30 - 31
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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