Comprehension regularity in Broca's aphasia? There's more of it than you ever imagined

We analyze the comprehension data in Broca's aphasia, pooled together by Be rndt, Mitchum, and Haendinges (1996). We show that once analyzed properly, these data have statistical structure that is very similar to that revealed by the analysis in Grodzinsky, Pinango, Zurif, and Drai (1999). The sugges tion that the latter authors doctored the data to obtain a desired outcome is as false as the claim that the data in Berndt et al. show no regularity. Comprehension scores in Broca's aphasia do have statistical structure, whi ch correlates with syntactic structure. Thus, the role of Broca's area and its vicinity in language processing can be made more precise. (C) 1999 Acad emic Press.