Using lesion - behaviour correlations to study language function

The use of lesion data to make inferences about the neural basis of cognitive functions is a useful and widespread practise in cognitive neuropsychology (Damasio & Damasio, 1989 to Bates et al., 2003). We propose a novel approach for the determination of lesion/behaviour relationships, which does not require explicit lesion quantification but instead utilises signal intensity level on a voxel by voxel basis.