The language faculty, Broca's region, and the mirror system

Yosef Grodzinsky

doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70378-2

The language faculty, Broca's region, and the mirror system

Yosef Grodzinsky^*

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Abstract

Examples of three types of empirical arguments are given for the modularity of language mechanisms in Broca's region, and against a unified account of the functional role of this region and of the ventral precentral sulcus (vPCS). These are (a) pure syntactic considerations, (b) observations on the comprehension performance of Broca's aphasics, (c) recent fMRI results from receptive tasks at the sentence level.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	464-468
Number of pages	5
Journal	Cortex
Volume	42
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70378-2
State	Published - May 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aphasia
Modularity
Movement rules
Sentence processing
Syntax
fMRI

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