In this report we comment upon subject selection and methodology, and we describe some recent studies of syntactic processing in aphasia. Our data show that, like neurologically intact subjects, Wernicke's patients reactivate moved constituents (instantiate coreference) at the site of their extraction (even for sentences that they do not understand). Broca's patients, by constrast, are shown no...

Pedro Ernesto University Hospital of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil (HUPE/UERJ): Neurology Service; Institute of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil (IPUB/UFRJ); Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil (Uni-Rio); Probative training student for Master’s Degree in Psychiatr...

Sensory comprehension and motor production of language symbols form the basis of human speech. Classical neuroanatomy has pointed to Wernicke's and Broca's areas as playing important roles in the integration of these 2 functions. However, recent studies have proposed that more direct pathways may exist between auditory input and motor output, bypassing Wernicke's and Broca's areas. We used func...