The existence of comprehension patterns in Broca's aphasia.
Berndt and Caramazza (1999) claim that Grodzinsky, Piñango, Zurif, and Drai (1999) were able to show a canonical-noncanonical difference (e.g., actives vs. passives) in the comprehension of Broca's aphasic patients only because of a patient selection bias. We show that the canonical-noncanonical comprehension pattern exists apart from any such bias, and that this pattern bears importantly on our understanding of the neuroanatomical organization of comprehension capacity at the sentence level.
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Psychology Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110, USA.
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D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000150:complications; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics