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Imagine trying to describe the character and severity of an aphasic patient’s language disorder without being able to distinguish word from sentence-level processes, or without invoking grammatical categories (noun, verb, preposition), or without being able to differentiate errors in the grammatical organization of language, from those that arise at the semantic or phonological level of organization. When it comes to disorders of action, clinicians and researchers are handicapped in just this way. What is lacking is a descriptive theory that will do for action what grammatical theories do for language, that is, that will pick out units of action and define their configurational properties at different levels of organization.
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Mayer, N.H., Reed, E., Schwartz, M.F., Montgomery, M., Palmer, C. (1990). Buttering a Hot Cup of Coffee: An Approach to the Study of Errors of Action in Patients with Brain Damage. In: Tupper, D.E., Cicerone, K.D. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Assessment and Basic Competencies. Foundations of Neuropsychology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1503-2_11
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