Practice question · True or false
Damage to Broca's area destroys both the production and the comprehension of language.
Hints
- What can such a patient still do?
- Comprehension is supported elsewhere.
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False
Why
False. Comprehension is largely intact, the patient understands and cannot produce. Wernicke's area supports comprehension and gives the opposite picture: fluent, meaningless speech. That double dissociation is the founding evidence that language is several functions with distinguishable substrates.
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