Abstract
Writing ability develop based on acquiring oral language, and writing disturbances due to brain damages may be closely related with oral language performances. Brain lesions caused writing disturbances are supposed in the left hemisphere, i. e. the operculum of the second frontal gyrus, the angular gyrus, the superior parietal lobule and the inferior posterior temporal area. These areas are adjacent to language areas such as Broca's area and Wernicke's area, and then aphasics may reveal various types of disturbances in writing, including impairments of retrieval and/or selection of letters/words. In this paper, the author presents examples of writing errors in aphasia.
