0% Matter of Mind : A Neurologist's View Kenneth M. Heilman Introductory Chapter 2 Flashcards
Aphasia
loss of speech or a disruption in using and/or understanding language following neurological injury or disease.
Thalamus
Relay station deep in the brain, sensory information travels from a specialized organ such as the ear or eye to this part of the brain
Primary sensory areas
Recieving area of the cerebral cortex. Sensory information travels from the thalamus to the cerebral cortex to the primary sensory areas. Each sense has its own receiving area in the brain.
This primary sensory area is located in the upper part of the temporal lobe.
Primary auditory area
Wernicke’s model of how the left hemisphere mediates speech:
- Auditory information enters the primary auditory cortex. (AI)
- The auditory cortex is part of the superior highest temporal lobe.
- After an auditory analysis the information is sent to the part of the left association cortex that is Wernicke‘s area. (WA)
- Wernicke’s area is connected to Broca’s area by a pathway called the,
______________ ____________, that is curved and travels to the back of the Sylvia fissure.
Wernicke’s model of how the left hemisphere mediates speech:
- Auditory information enters the primary auditory cortex. (AI)
- The auditory cortex is part of the superior highest temporal lobe.
- After an auditory analysis the information is sent to the part of the left association cortex that is Wernicke‘s area. (WA)
- Wernicke’s area is connected to Broca’s area by a pathway called the,
arcuate fasiculus that is curved and travels to the back of the Sylvia fissure.
Area that projects to the motor cortex that is important in programming the movements necessary to produce words.
Broca’s Area
Controls the nerves running to the muscles that move the mouth tongue lips palate and vocal chords.
Motor cortex
If the connections between Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area were injured then it would make it so that their are speech errors. This is because..
The information about word sounds could not travel to the area that programs movement.
If the connections between Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area were injured then it would make it so that their are speech errors.
The person would still comprehend speech with representation of word sound intact.
True or false
In this instance the person would not recognize that he or she had made errors or attempt to correct them.
If the connections between Wernicke’s area and Broca’s area were injured then it would make it so that their are speech errors.
The person would still comprehend speech with representation of word sound intact.
In this instance the person would not recognize that he or she had made errors or attempt to correct them.
This is false.
The truth is in this instance the person would recognize that he or she had made errors and also attempt to correct them.
Type of Aphasia where the lesion is in the arcuate fasiculus.
Conduction Aphasia
Wernickes area stores information about…
Wernickes area stores information about how words sound(Phonological lexicon)
Broca’s area.programs ..
Broca’s area programs speech movements needed to make sounds.
Pure word deafness
Patients speak and name objects normally but cannot understand speech or repeat because speech sounds cannot access Wernicke’s area.
Wernicke’s aphasia
Patients cannot comprehend repeat or name but have fluent speech that contains neoligisms and words with phonological errors
Broca’s aphasia
Patients can understand but have trouble speaking because they cannot program their mouth, lips tongue, palate and vocal cords to make correct speech sounds
Voice and sound recognition are not verbal and can be mediated by the non dominant _____hemisphere.
Voice and sound recognition are not verbal and can be mediated by the non dominant right hemisphere.
Lesions of the primary auditory cortex on both sides causes__________ _________
Cortical deafness
Echolalia
Involuntary echoing of others speech in coversation.
Transcortical sensory aphasia
Able to repeat words, fluent speech with good english words but wrong word selection, so spontaneous speech carries little meaning.
Primary auditory cortex function:
Analyze sounds entering the brain.
Memories of how words sound are stored in ______ area
Memories of how words sound are stored in Wernicke’s area