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What is special about Broca's area?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Michael T. Ullman
Affiliation:
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20007 {michael; izvorski}@gics.georgetown.edu www.giccs.georgetown.edu/labs/ullman
Roumyana Izvorski
Affiliation:
Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20007 {michael; izvorski}@gics.georgetown.edu www.giccs.georgetown.edu/labs/ullman

Abstract

We discuss problematic theoretical and empirical issues and consider alternative explanations for Grodzinsky's hypotheses regarding receptive and expressive syntactic mechanisms in agrammatic aphasia. We also explore his claims pertaining to domain-specificity and neuroanatomical localization.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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