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18 - Language and the Brain Flashcards

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What are the 6 Cerebral Lobes?

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Frontal

Parietal

Occipital

Temporal

Cerebellum

Pons

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What does the Wernicke-Geschwind Model assume?

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That language is almost exclusively LH dominant

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What cerebral lobes are most important to language processsing?

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Frontal & Temporal

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What are the two language parts of the frontal lobe?

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Broca’s area

Primary Motor Cortex

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What does Broca’s Area do?

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Plans & organizes speech movements

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Where does Broca’s Area send language information next?

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Primary Motor Cortex

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What does the Primary Motor Cortex do?

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Control speech muscles

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What is the major characteristic of Broca’s Aphasia?

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Slow, haulting speech

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What is the ability of someone with Broca’s Aphasia’s to access words?

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Extreme difficult

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How is the comprehension of someone with Broca’s Aphasia?

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Good!

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What are the language parts of temporal lobe?

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Primary Auditory Cortex

Wernicke’s Area

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What does the Primary Auditory Cortex do?

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Perception of Auditory Stimuli

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Where does the Primary Auditory Cortex send information next?

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Wernicke’s Area

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What does Wernicke’s Area do?

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Storage and retrieval of words and meanings

Grammar Rules

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What is Wernicke’s Aphasia characterized by?

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Fluent but nonsensical speech

Jargon

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How is comprehension in Wernicke’s Aphasia?

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Poor

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What does the Arcuate Fasciculus do?

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Connects Wernicke’s to Broca’s

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Where’s does Wernicke’s Area send information next?

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Arcuate Fasciculus

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Where does Arcuate Fasciculus send information next?

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Broca’s Area

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What does Conduction Aphasia affect?

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The Arcuate Fasciculus

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What are the two addition areas of the brain that are important to reading and writing?

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Primary Visual Cortex

Angular Gyrus

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Where is the Primary Visual Cortex?

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Occipital Lobe

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What is the Primary Visual Cortex in charge of?

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Visual Perception

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Where is the Angular Gyrus located?

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At the junction of the parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes

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What does the Angular Gyrus do?

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Associates visual symbols to linguistic constructs

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What is the neural pathway to Understanding Speech?

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Primary Auditory Cortex -> Wernicke’s

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What is the neural pathway to Producing Spontaneous Speech?

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Wernicke’s Area -> Arcuate Fasciculus -> Broca’s Area -> Primary Motor Cortex

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What is the neural pathway to Verbal Repetition?

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Primary Auditory Cortex -> Wernicke’s Area -> Arcuate Fasciculus -> Broca’s Area -> Primary Motor Cortex

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What is the neural pathway to Reading?

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Primary Visual Cortex -> Angular Gyrus -> Wernicke’s Area

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What will damage to Broca’s Area cause?

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Know what to say but not how to say it

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What will damage to Wernicke’s Area cause?

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Comprehension problems

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What will damage to Primary Auditory Cortex cause?

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Can’t hear it

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What will damage to Angular Gyrus cause?

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Can’t read write

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What will damage to Primary Visual Cortex cause?

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Can’t see

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What will damage to Arcuate Fasciculus cause?

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Can’t repeat

No spontaneous speech

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Aphasia can be classified as _______ or _______.

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Receptive

Expressive

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What are Trait Categories of Receptive Aphasia?

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Language content

Language form

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What are we looking for in language content in Receptive Aphasia?

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Isolated words

Sentence & connected speech

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What are we looking for in language form in Receptive Aphasia?

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Morphology

Syntax

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What are Trait Categories of Expressive Aphasia?

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Language Content

Language Form

Language Use

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What are we looking for in language content in Expressive Aphasia?

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Word retrieval tasks - naming

Connected speech

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What are we looking for in language form in Expressive Aphasia?

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Sentence generation

Connected/spontaneous speech

Use of function words

Morphological markers

Syntactic constructs

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What are we looking for in language use in Expressive Aphasia?

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Pragmatics

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