The Neurological Organization of Some Aspects of Sentence Comprehension

I briefly review 25 years of aphasia research directed to uncovering the neurological organization of sentence comprehension capacity. I provide a description of aphasic comprehension disorders offered along syntactic lines, and I connect the syntactic limitation (revealed in this description) to the disruption of cortically localizable processing resources.

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