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| A stroke or brain damage caused by the blockage or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain |
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-Left hemisphere: speech production and comprehension
-Right hemisphere: emotional interpretation of words |
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| Difficulty producing/comprehending speech |
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Problem with speech production
-agrammatism, anomia, articulation |
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| Broca's area (location and what it controls) |
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Speech production
-frontal cortex |
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Symptom of Broca's aphasia
-difficulty in using grammatical info to determine meaning |
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Symptom of Broca's aphasia
-difficulty remembering the appropriate word for something |
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| The inability to move tongue, lips, and throat to produce the proper sequence of speech sounds |
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| Wernicke's area (location and what it does) |
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Comprehension of words/production of meaningful speech
-auditory association cortex |
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-Poor speech comprehension
-Fluent, but meaningless speech |
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| Cannot comprehend spoken words |
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| What causes pure word deafness? |
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| Damage to the Wernicke's area |
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| Transcortical sensory aphasia |
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Can repeat speech
-cannot comprehend/produce meaningful speech |
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| What causes transcortical sensory aphasia? |
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| Damage to the area posterior to Wernicke's area |
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| Inability to name/identify body parts |
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| What causes autotopagnosia |
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| Damage to the left parietal lobe |
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Cannot repeat speech
-can comprehend/produce speech |
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| A bundle of axons that connect Wernicke's and Broca's areas |
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| Damage to the arcuate fasciculus causes what? |
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| Strategy that people with anomic aphasia use to find alternate words |
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Rhythm, tone and emphasis in speech
-important for communicating emotion |
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| Which hemisphere mediates prodody? |
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| How well do people with Wernicke's aphasia read and write? |
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| Reading and writing reflects their ability to speak and understand |
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| How well do people with Broca's aphasia read and write? |
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Comprehend written words as well as spoken words
-writing reflects their ability to speak |
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Unable to read, but still able to write
-aka pure word blindness/alexia w/o agraphia |
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| What is the difference between whole word and phonetic reading? |
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Whole word: sight reading
Phonetic: sound reading |
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| Can read phonetically, but cannot read irregularly spelled words with whole word reading |
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| What causes surface dyslexia? |
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| Damage to the left temporal lobe |
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| Can read familiar words, but not unfamiliar words |
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| What causes phonological dyslexia? |
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| Damage to the left frontal lobe |
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| Cannot sound out words to write them phonologically |
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| Can spell regularly spelled words, but not irregularly spelled words |
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| What causes developmental dyslexia? |
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| Genetics or prenatal factors |
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