Damage to Different Cortical Areas Results in Different Forms of Aphasia

question 38

Multiple Choice

Damage to different cortical areas results in different forms of aphasia. This best illustrates that language processing involves multiple

• A) prototypes.
• B) semantics.
• C) critical periods.
• D) neural networks.

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