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From Broca's aphasia to the language module: A transformation too large?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

Fred H. Previc
Fred H. Previc
Affiliation:
Flight Motion Effects Branch, Biodynamics and Protection Division, Crew Systems Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, TX 78235-5104. fred.previc@afrlars.brooks.af.mil
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Abstract

This commentary focuses on the larger implications of Grodzinsky's hypothesis. Although Grodzinsky argues persuasively that the syntactic comprehension deficits in Broca's aphasia involve mainly an inability to comprehend sentences requiring a transformational movement of phrasal constituents, his larger claim for a distinct and dedicated “language organ” in the left hemisphere is much less tenable.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2000 , pp. 49 - 50
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© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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