Neural Organization for Syntactic Processing as Determined by Effects of Lesions
Neural Organization for Syntactic Processing as Determined by Effects of Lesions
Logic, Data, and Difficult Questions
Information about the way the brain is organized to support processing of syntax can be obtained using the lesion approach, in which the effects of lesions on syntactic processing are analyzed, and the activation approach, which involves analysis of changes in neural activity related to syntactic functioning. Using the lesion approach, this chapter examines the neural organization for syntactic processing. It presents results from research on aphasic disturbances of syntactic comprehension and focuses on the organization of the brain for parsing and sentence interpretation. It also considers deficits in syntactically based comprehension and their relationship with lesions and describes models of regional functional neuroanatomy.
Keywords: syntax, brain, lesion approach, activation approach, syntactic processing, lesions, deficits, neural organization, aphasic disturbances, syntactic comprehension
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