TY - JOUR
T1 - Language deficits, localization, and grammar
T2 - Evidence for a distributive model of language breakdown in aphasic patients and neurologically intact individuals
AU - Dick, Frederic
AU - Bates, Elizabeth
AU - Utman, Jennifer Aydelott
AU - Wulfeck, Beverly
AU - Dronkers, Nina
AU - Gernsbacher, Morton Ann
PY - 2001/1/1
Y1 - 2001/1/1
N2 - Selective deficits in aphasic patients' grammatical production and comprehension are often cited as evidence that syntactic processing is modular and localizable in discrete areas of the brain (e.g., Y. Grodzinsky, 2000). The authors review a large body of experimental evidence suggesting that morphosyntactic deficits can be observed in a number of aphasic and neurologically intact populations. They present new data showing that receptive agrammatism is found not only over a range of aphasic groups, but is also observed in neurologically intact individuals processing under stressful conditions. The authors suggest that these data are most compatible with a domain-general account of language, one that emphasizes the interaction of linguistic distributions with the properties of an associative processor working under normal or suboptimal conditions.
AB - Selective deficits in aphasic patients' grammatical production and comprehension are often cited as evidence that syntactic processing is modular and localizable in discrete areas of the brain (e.g., Y. Grodzinsky, 2000). The authors review a large body of experimental evidence suggesting that morphosyntactic deficits can be observed in a number of aphasic and neurologically intact populations. They present new data showing that receptive agrammatism is found not only over a range of aphasic groups, but is also observed in neurologically intact individuals processing under stressful conditions. The authors suggest that these data are most compatible with a domain-general account of language, one that emphasizes the interaction of linguistic distributions with the properties of an associative processor working under normal or suboptimal conditions.
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U2 - 10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.759
DO - 10.1037/0033-295X.108.4.759
M3 - Article
C2 - 11699116
AN - SCOPUS:85047683323
VL - 108
SP - 759
EP - 788
JO - Psychological Review
JF - Psychological Review
SN - 0033-295X
IS - 4
ER -