Language deficits, localization, and grammar: Evidence for a distributive model of language breakdown in aphasic patients and neurologically intact individuals

Citation
F. Dick et al., Language deficits, localization, and grammar: Evidence for a distributive model of language breakdown in aphasic patients and neurologically intact individuals, PSYCHOL REV, 108(4), 2001, pp. 759-788
Citations number
164
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Review
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
ISSN journal
0033-295X → ACNP
Volume
108
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
759 - 788
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-295X(200110)108:4<759:LDLAGE>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Selective deficits in aphasic patients' grammatical production and comprehe nsion 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 morph osyntactic deficits can be observed in a number of aphasic and neurological ly intact populations. They present new data showing that receptive agramma tism 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-gen eral account of language, one that emphasizes the interaction of linguistic distributions with the properties of an associative processor working unde r normal or suboptimal conditions.