Syntactic recursion and theory-of-mind reasoning in agrammatic aphasia

Abstract

This study investigates how aphasic impairment impinges on recursivity of language and theory-of-mind inferences. Results of linguistic tests showed that in Broca’s aphasia syntactic recursion is substituted for theory-of-mind inferences on the base that linguistic system and theory- of- mind type reasoning interact with one recursion modul in human mind.