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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Neurol. 2010 Mar 9;6(4):202–210. doi: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.15

Table 1. Lesion sites associated with speech comprehension and production impairments.

Blacked out cells indicate lesion-symptom relationship with reference source, see key below.

LESION SITE COMPREHENSION PRODUCTION SYNTAX
LOBE REGION Nonfluent Apraxia Repeat Persev’ Gram’
Insula B4, B6 D6,Bo7 K0
Frontal K0
IFG / sensorimotor B7 Bo7, K7
iFG/mFG dorsal B3, D4, A7a
iFG/mFG ventral D4 A7a
sup. long. fasciculus B4
Parietal B3 S4a K0, B6
angular g
post. temp-parietal A7a
Temporal post. temp Bo7 W4
ant. temp Bo7 W4
post. sup. temp K0, S4a,B7,S9 A7a
ant. sup. temp D4
middle temp B3,D4,S4a,B7,S9
Subcortical putamen K0, B6
caudate K0

Blacked out cells indicate a lesion-symptom relationship

Abbreviations

Repeat Auditory repetition

Gram’ grammaticality

Persev’ perseveration

sup. long. fasciculus superior longitudinal fasciculus

IFG inferior frontal gyrus

mFG middle frontal gyrus

angular g. angular gyrus.

temp-parietal temporo-parietal

temp. temporal

sup. temp superior temporal

post. posterior

ant. Anterior

Source

A7a Amici (2007a)53

A7b Amici (2007b)54

B3 Bates (2003)55

B6 Baldo et al. (2006)56

B7 Baldo et al. (2007)57

Bo7  Borovsky et al. (2007)58

D4 Dronkers(2004)59

D6 Dronkers (1996)60

K0 Kreisler (2000)32

K7 Kinkingnéhun (2007)61

S4 Saygin auditory (2004)62

S9 Specht et al. (2009)63

W4 Wilson and Saygin (2004)64