1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension" ?
This paper describes the opportunity to evaluate a large number of brain-injured patients to determine which lesioned brain areas might affect language comprehension.. Further analysis 0022-2860/ $ see front matter q 2004 Elsevier B. V.. Suggested that the middle temporal gyrus may be more important for comprehension at the word level, while the other regions may play a greater role at the level of the sentence.
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2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "Lesion analysis of the brain areas involved in language comprehension" ?
This result is, in itself, most heartening and confirms the possibility of convergence between these different approaches.. However, the convergence of the two literatures also shows that this complex process might be broken down into functional components that future work can begin to tease out in more detail.. Other work with both patients and fMRI is investigating how frontal involvement might affect constructions requiring maintenance and manipulation of syntactic and/or semantic information, and further patient work is also examining the role of the inferior parietal lobule and STS/STG in auditory short-term verbal memory.. The fact that both lesion and functional imaging work are not finding the classic Broca ’ s and Wernicke ’ s areas to be as important as neighboring areas in language comprehension suggests a further avenue of future research.
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3. What is the role of Broca’s area in the processing of a passive voice sentence?
The processing of a passive voice sentence, for example, may require working memory to assist in the temporary retention of information while other relevant parts of the sentence are being manipulated (i.e. to resolve the assignment of thematic roles to arguments).
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4. What was assumed that Broca’s area played a key role in syntactic?
Since patients with Broca’s aphasia were believed to have lesions in or around Broca’s area, it was assumed that Broca’s area played a key role in syntactic processing.
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