HIGHLIGHTS• A specific deficit underlies the linguistic impairment of patients with striatal lesions • Striatal lesions cause deficit in selection processes not in grammatical evaluation • Striatum selects linguistic alternatives computed in cortical language areas • Atrophy in dorsal striatum correlates with selection deficit in Huntington disease
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