کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
142121 162981 2008 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The battle for Broca’s region
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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The battle for Broca’s region
چکیده انگلیسی

The intense effort to characterize Broca’s region has produced many views on its anatomy and function. Here, we present the leading approaches and consider ways to adjudicate among them empirically. Anatomically, we focus on the cytoarchitecture of Brodmann areas 44 and 45, which constitute Broca’s region. Functionally, we discuss four views: action perception, working memory, syntactic complexity and syntactic movement. We compare these views, reflect on how they can be distinguished experimentally and review relevant aphasia and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. Although no single hypothesis accounts for all of the data, the role of Broca’s region in language comprehension is best explained by the syntactic movement account. This conclusion opens the door for an attempt to define general principles for the neural representation of linguistic knowledge.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: - Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 474–480
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