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Brain, Vol. 127, No. 6, 1217-1218, 2004
© 2004 Guarantors of Brain
doi: 10.1093/brain/awh202

Does language lateralization depend on the hippocampus?

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Children acquire language even in the presence of extensive damage to classical left-hemisphere language areas. Moreover, following acute brain lesions, children recover lost language functions much better than adults (Vargha-Khadem et al., 1994Go).

One reason for the superior recovery in children is a greater capability for functional reorganization, the most striking example being the shifting of language from the damaged to the intact hemisphere. Transhemispheric reorganization is an intriguing mechanism because it seems to allow the reinstatement of language by the recruitment of a homologous neural circuitry in the unaffected hemisphere.

Considerable reorganization, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Stefan Knecht1

1 Department of Neurology, University of Münster, Germany E-mail: knecht@uni-muenster.de


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