| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥3,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We found that the patients with a lesion in "the Grammar Center", which is a part of left frontal cortex, showed pure deficits in the syntactic comprehension of sentences. Using a picture-sentence matching task, we examined 21 patients with a glioma in the left frontal cortex, who preoperatively underwent a high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The Grammar Center-damaged patients showed profound deficits in the comprehension of non-canonical and object-initial scrambled sentences. These results establish that a lesion in this region is sufficient to cause agrammatic comprehension, even for patients with no apparent disability in verbal/written communication according to the standard clinical assessment.
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