Language and the brain

Broca's aphasia,

------(motor aphasia or non-fluent aphasia) is characterized by heavily reduced speech, distorted articulation, and effortful speech.

Wernicke's aphasia,

------- (sensory aphasia or fluent aphasia) results when there is damage to Wernicke's area in the temporal lobe of the brain. Fluent aphasics have no difficulty producing language, but have a great difficulty selecting, organizing, understanding and monitoring their language production.

acquired dysgraphia,

-------a is the impairment of writing ability caused by brain damage and is distinguished from developmental dysgraphia in children. This disorder usually accompanies aphasia. Patients with Broca's aphasia will usually have problems writing as they do in producing speech. They will omit functional words and inflectional affixes in writing.

Slips of the tongue, (Spoonerisms)

Slips of the tongue offer a fascinating view into the role of phonemes and morphemes in language production. -----was famous for producing speech errors known as Spoonerisms that were often humorous. These slips of the tongue demonstrate a process in which sentences are created. Use the door to open the key

arcuate fasciculus

The area in the picture (4) is known as the (?) This is a bundle of nerve fibers that forms an essential connection between Wernicke's and Broca's areas. This area was also a discovery by Wernicke.

neurolinguistics

The goal of understanding how language is represented and processed in the brain is called

Broca's area

This area in the picture (1) is technically known as the "anterior speech cortex", but more commonly known as Broca's Area. The French surgeon Paul Broca discovered in the 1860s that damage to this area of the brain was related to difficulty in producing speech. Broca observed a patient was almost completely unable to speak but seemed to understand everything that was said to him. A similar injury in the same spot of the right hemisphere did not result in difficulty with speech production. This discovery was first used to suggest that language is located in the left hemisphere and this area is responsible for speech production.

Wernicke's Area

This area of the picture (2) is known as the "posterior speech cortex" or (?) In the 1870s, Carl Wernicke was a German doctor who discovered that damage to this part of the brain resulted in speech comprehension difficulties. This finding, again, suggested that language is contained in the left hemisphere of the brain.

motor cortex

This part of the left hemisphere in the picture (3) is the (?) and is generally associated with movement of muscles such as the hands, feet, and arms. Close to Broca's area is the part of the (?) that controls the articulatory muscles of the face, jaw, tongue, larynx, etc. In 1959, Penfield and Roberts discovered that by applying small electrical currents to the brain they could interfere with normal speech production.

slip of ear

This type of slip is a result the brain tries to make sense of auditory signals. Great ape for gray tape Gray day for grade A

Language and the brain

Two areas of study involving language and the brain are neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics.

slip of brain

When we are speaking and substitute whole words which are inappropriate for the situation, we call it a slip of the brain. tup of tea, shu flots, beel fetter,

McGurk effect

Your eyes play an important role when you listen Like; ba, ba, ba, and pa, pa, pa Vision influences what you're hearing too.

acquired dyslexia

problem reading, ------ is the impairment of reading ability caused by brain damage and is distinguished from developmental dyslexia in children.