Brocas Patients Can't Read Function Words Outloud From Test Cards

Brocas patients are unable to read function words outloud from test cards. Yet they can read homophones - words that sound the same but mean something else. The resulting vernices aphasia is a type of fluent aphasia, which means that the speech is not labored and sufferers are still able to use function words like articles and prepositions. Their words most occur in a grammatically correct order. Instead, they have trouble with picking the right content words. They tend to produce meaningless utterances. So meaning is pared for them in a very general sense. One other interesting thing that this tells us about the brain is that words do not seem to