Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition (1999). Chapter 3: Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior. Quote 11

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Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition (1999). Chapter 3: Some Issues Concerning the Control of Human Behavior. Quote 11

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The pathological condition of verbal behavior called aphasia often emphasizes functional differences which are hard to understand in terms of the traditional account … The aphasic has lost some of the functional relationships which control his verbal behavior. A response of a given form may no longer be under the control of one functional relation, although it is still under the control of another. (p. 190)
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