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| How has our knowledge of the physiology of language been obtained? |
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| Studying the effects of brain lesions on peoples' behavior |
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| Caused by brain damage. Difficulty in producing or understanding speech not caused by deafness or a motor deficit. |
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| Most language problems occur from damage to the ________ side of the brain |
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| Damage to left frontal lobe (Broca's Area). Slow, laborious and nonfluent speech. Trouble finding words. |
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| Lesions to the ____ _____ can produce effects similar to Broca's Aphasia. |
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| What do the neural circuits in Broca's Area do? |
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| Contain motor memories-- memories of the sequences of muscle movements that are needed for articulation. |
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| A common symptom of Broca's Aphasia. Difficulty understanding and using grammatical devices. |
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| Big symptom of Broca's Aphasia. Word-finding difficulty. |
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| Region of auditory association Cortex in left temporal lobe. Important in word comprehension and producing meaningful speech. |
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| Poor speech comprehension, production of meaningless speech, problem with recognition of spoken words, impaired ability to put thoughts into words. |
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| Caused by damage to left temporal lobe. Patient can hear you talking but does not understand what you're saying. Their own speech is not impaired and they can understand speech by lip reading. They can also read and write. |
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| Neurons activated either when we preform an action or seeing another person performing a particular action. |
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| Transcortical Sensory Aphasia |
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Damage to Wernicke's Area.
Difficulty comprehending speech.
Difficulty producing meaningful speech.
Can repeat speech. |
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| How can people with Transcortical Sensory Aphasia repeat words? |
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| A direct connection between Wernicke's and Broca's areas. |
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| Word meaning has to do with... |
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Damage to the association cortex of the left parietal lobe.
Inability to name body parts. |
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A bundle of axons
Connects Broca's to Wernicke's
Conveys info about sounds of words but not their meanings |
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Meaningful fluent speech
Relatively good comprehension
Very poor repetition
Can repeat sounds only if they have meaning |
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DIfficulty in word finding
Can understand what other people say
What they say often makes perfect sense |
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Anomia for verbs
Damage to frontal cortex in and around Broca's Area |
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| _____ neurons help in learning sign language |
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| Normal speech flow, intonation, etc. |
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Interruption of normal speech flow
~1% of population
3x more men |
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NOT caused by abnormalities in neural circuits
May be caused by faulty auditory feedback from sounds of the stutterers own speech |
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| Loss of ability to read without loss of ability to write, produced by brain damage |
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