Chapter 15 quiz attempt 2 FINAL

A large frontal lesion in the left hemisphere can produce _______ aphasia.

Broca's

Which of the following best describes the Wernicke-Geschwind model of aphasia?

Connectionist

Which region of cortex is crucial for face recognition?

Fusiform gyrus

Which statement about the evolution of languages is most accurate?

Languages are being lost or absorbed as a result of increasing globalization.

Which symptom is not one of the forms of brain pathology associated with long-time boxers?

Micropolygyria

______ is an anatomical abnormality of developmental dyslexia that is associated with excessive cortical folding in areas such as the temporoparietal junction

Micropolygyria

The human brain shows a clear _______, during which exposure and practice with language must occur in order for language skills to develop normally.

critical period

An exciting, but controversial future treatment for brain injury may be the use of _______ to replace the damaged neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

embryonic stem cells

Which of the following is correct about the word "unbreakable"?

Able is a morpheme.

A 45-year old individual that played football all his life is showing signs of confusion and memory loss. If you were to examine his brain, what would you expect to find?

Abnormal expression of tau

Apraxia is

an inability to execute a learned sequence of movements.

The complete loss of the ability to understand language, or to speak, read, or write is called _______ aphasia.

global

If conscious subjects receive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of anterior portions of Broca's area, they

have difficulty understanding the meanings of words.

In infants, the left planum temporale is larger than the right, suggesting that

humans have an inborn neural mechanism for language.

Hemispheric specialization is also known as

lateralization.

Aphasic patients may produce nonsensical or meaningless words called

neologisms.

The sounds that make up a language are called _______, and the system of rules for producing sentences is called _______.

phonemes; grammar

Prosopagnosia is the inability to

recognize faces.

People with conduction aphasia are unable to

repeat words or sentences.

A left-ear advantage for verbal sounds can be observed in up to 50% of

right-handed individuals.

Anna has been diagnosed with deep dyslexia. The most obvious symptom she has is

she interprets a word when reading not as the word on the page but as a semantically related word.

A native English-speaking person with _______ dyslexia would have great difficulty reading the title The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough

surface

Early studies using electrodes to stimulate discrete areas of cortex, thereby disrupting neural function, found

that electrical stimulation interfered with language abilities.

Wernicke's aphasia is usually associated with lesions of

the left posterior temporal region.

Speech mechanisms may have evolved from more ancient systems controlling gestures of the face and hands, in agreement with

the motor theory of language.