Semantic paralexia and the wrong hemisphere: a note on Landis, Regard, Graves and Goodglass (1983).
Landis et al. report a significant correlation between lesion size and the presence of semantic paralexia in an unselected series of aphasic patients. They consider that this relationship supports a right-hemisphere source for semantic errors. We advance a variety of empirical and theoretical arguments against this interpretation.
D001037:Aphasia / Q000150:complications*; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004411:Dyslexia, Acquired / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans