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ArticleBrain communications2025

Distinct neural correlates of morphosyntactic and thematic comprehension processes in aphasia.

Sabrina Beber, Rita Capasso, Chiara Maffei, Marco Tettamanti, Gabriele Miceli

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Sabrina BeberCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences-CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto 38068, Italy.
Rita CapassoBrain Associates, Roma 00195, Italy.
Chiara MaffeiAthinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02129, MA, USA.
Marco TettamantiDepartment of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano 20126, Italy.
Gabriele MiceliCenter for Mind/Brain Sciences-CIMeC, University of Trento, Rovereto 38068, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8835-094X

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Abstract

Functional neuroimaging studies in neurotypical subjects correlate sentence comprehension to a left fronto-temporo-parietal network. Recent voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) studies of aphasia confirm the link between sentence comprehension and a left posterior region including the angular gyrus, the supra-marginal gyrus and the postero-superior division of the temporal lobe but support left pre-frontal involvement inconsistently. However, these studies focus on thematic role assignment without considering morphosyntactic processes. Hence, available VLSM evidence could provide a partial view of the neurofunctional substrate of sentence comprehension. In the present VLSM study, both morphosyntactic and thematic processes were evaluated systematically and in the same sentence types in each participant, to provide a more detailed picture of the sentence comprehension network. Participants (33 patients with post-stroke aphasia and 90 healthy controls) completed a sentence-picture matching task in which active and passive, declarative reversible sentences were paired with morphosyntactic, thematic and lexical-semantic alternatives. Phonological short-term memory tasks were also administered. Aphasic participants were selected from an initial pool of 70 because they scored below norm on thematic foils (

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lesion-symptom mappingmorphosyntactic processingsentence comprehensionthematic re-analysisthematic role assignment

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