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Like most neurologists of my generation I had been trained to an overwhelming skepticism toward the view that there were highly characteristic aphasic syndromes associated with different lesions of the brain. Even more forcefully I had accepted the view that any attempt at ‘explaining’ the syndromes on the basis of anatomy was a futile endeavor. Although Sir Charles Symonds had during my years at Queen Square stood almost alone against this view, I had been so caught up in the standard approach that I disregarded his perceptive teachings.
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Geschwind, N. (1974). The Anatomy of Acquired Disorders of Reading. In: Selected Papers on Language and the Brain. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2093-0_1
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