Broca’s Aphasia
Broca’s aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to Broca’s Area in the frontal lobe.
Why is Broca's aphasia theoretically important?
It shows that language production can break down independently of comprehension, evidence for modular language functions.
- Halting, effortful, agrammatic speech
- Syntax is impaired more than semantics (content words survive, function words drop out)
- Comprehension is relatively better than production, though complex syntactic sentences can still trip them up
Also called expressive aphasia: the problem is getting language out.
Related
- Wernicke’s Aphasia (the classic double dissociation partner)