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| Shakespeare’s plays vocabulary |
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29,066 distinct forms, incl. proper
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| college graduate vocabulary |
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| The “Mental Lexicon”, organized into a |
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| semantic network combines (3) |
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semantic information, syntactic information, and knowledge about word
forms. |
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| 2 areas of language in the cortex |
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| brocas and wernickes area |
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| partial or complete loss of language following brain damage. |
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| Aphasia may result from.. |
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| lesions in the temporal or frontal lobe |
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| Patients show relatively good (but not normal) speech comprehension |
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| where is broca's aphasia damage located? |
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Generally associated with damage to the left frontal lobe, including (but
not limited to) “Broca’s area” (region just anterior of motor areas
serving speech) |
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| 3 symptoms of brocas aphasia |
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1. spontaneously speaking "telegram-like"
2. difficulty listening comprehension
3. speech articulation problems, repeating |
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Patients show fluent and effortless speech, superficially normal syntax.
But speech tends to be empty (filler words like “thing” etc.), meaningless,
contains errors of word choice. Patients are generally unaware of their
failure to convey ideas |
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| localization of wernickes aphasia is where |
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Brodmann area 22, posterior and
superior portions of the temporal lobe; often associated with right
hemianopia |
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| what do wernickes patients clearly have problems with |
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| comprehension in both spoken and written language |
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demonstrates the integration of auditory and visual
signals in speech perception, discovered and originally published by
McGurk and MacDonald (1976) |
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“Putting one brain
hemisphere to sleep”, by
injection of sodium amytal
into the carotid artery |
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_____hemisphere is
found to be “dominant” for
language in most (93%)
but not all subjects |
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Right-handed subjects:
95% |
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Left-handed subjects:
19% |
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The human brain shows
evidence of anatomical
differences between the
two cerebral
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of scale (3) |
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1. Macroanatomy
2. Cytoarchitectonics
3. Circuitry and Cells |
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Found highly significant differences between the left and right
hemispheres in language-related areas |
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| Geschwind and Levitsky (1968): |
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