The Connectionist Model of Aphasia Argues That Language Deficits Due

question 46

Multiple Choice

The connectionist model of aphasia argues that language deficits due to brain damage are a result of

• A) destruction of left-hemisphere language zones that control the precise production of and perception of the complex movements that comprise speech.
• B) new connections made during the recovery period, between Wernicke's area and the precentral gyrus.
• C) the limited number of neural connections in monolingual adults, since the same damage does not cause the same deficits in bilingual adults.
• D) broken connections between the brain regions that form the language network.

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