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.