Assistant Professor, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. Bridging the gaps between linguistic theory, neuroscience, and aphasia.
May 3, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
For 10 years, I have focused on the neurobiology of syntax. Finally, I feel that we have some solid answers in our new paper (with @GregoryHickok) just accepted for publication in Cerebral Cortex 1/13 docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/13f374_d0b…
Main problem with dominant Broca’s area view is aphasia. Broca’s aphasia patients, patients with damage to Broca’s area retain substantial syntactic knowledge, unlike patients with posterior temporal damage, who have the biggest sentence and syntactic comprehension deficits. 2/13