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      Sentence comprehension following agenesis of the corpus callosum.

      Brain and Language
      Agenesis of Corpus Callosum, Attention, physiology, Child, Corpus Callosum, physiopathology, Dominance, Cerebral, Female, Humans, Language Development Disorders, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Semantics, Speech Perception, Verbal Learning

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          The sentence comprehension skills of a 6-year-old girl with callosal agenesis were compared to skills of three other children matched for age and verbal IQ. Sentence-picture matching and acting out tasks were used with reversible active, passive, and center-embedded relative clause sentences. The acallosal subject showed a deficit in syntactic comprehension. The difficulty was due to a failure to assign correct semantic roles to some sentence forms, not to a lack of ability to discriminate among the sentence forms. The data are consistent with a previous report by M. Dennis (1977, In Topics in child neurology, pp. 189-212) that in acallosal subjects syntactic comprehension can be adversely affected. Because this acallosal subject is only 6 years old, follow-up studies will be needed to determine whether she eventually acquires normal syntactic skills.

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