Lesions of the basal ganglia, thalamus, and deep white matter: Differential effects on language functions☆
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2019, Journal of NeurolinguisticsCitation Excerpt :The RL component might appear a bit more problematic since the core computation of RL (the so-called reward prediction error) is linked to striatal dopamine, which is not typically considered part of the language network. However, both the role of dopamine (Wong, Morgan-Short, Ettlinger, & Zheng, 2012) and subcortical contributions to syntax (Wallesch et al., 1983) have been shown, and might have been overlooked in favor of cortical ones (Stocco, Lebiere, & Anderson, 2010). Finally, it is worth noting that this approach is also analogous to Ullman's declarative/procedural model (Ullman et al., 1997) if one assumes that procedural knowledge can be equated to RL actions.
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2017, CortexCitation Excerpt :Our findings concur with our previous study that found correlations between agrammatic aphasia and atrophy of the pars triangularis and opercularis (Whitwell, Duffy, Strand, Xia, et al., 2013); however, the involvement of the thalamus and basal ganglia suggests that Broca's area may not be the only region associated with the development of agrammatic aphasia. Both the basal ganglia and thalamus have previously been implicated in agrammatic aphasia (Fridriksson, Bonilha, & Rorden, 2007; Marie, 1906; Wallesch et al., 1983), and, in fact, it has been suggested that Broca's area basal ganglia thalamocortical circuitry may be important in language processing (Brunner, Kornhuber, Seemuller, Suger, & Wallesch, 1982; Ullman, 2001). It has been theorized that a frontal-striatal network may play a role in providing the executive resources required to comprehend complex syntax (Grossman, 1999) or in controlling rule-governed behavior, including the application of grammatical rules to combine morphemes into complex words (Ullman, 2001).
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