Dissecting the function of networks underpinning language repetition

• Main Author: Marcelo L. Berthier (auth)
• Other Authors: Matthew A. Lambon Ralph (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; aphasia; temporal lobe; Arcuate Fasciculus; conduction aphasia; ventral stream; language; repetition; dorsal stream
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the 19th century, ground-breaking observations on aphasia by Broca and Wernicke suggested that language function depends on the activity of the cerebral cortex. At the same time, Wernicke and Lichtheim also elaborated the first large-scale network model of language which incorporated long-range a...