Brain Areas

Question 1

Broca’s aphasia:

Definition and symptoms:

Answer 1

This is a problem with Syntax, ( structure of sentences)

Symptoms:

Linked to problem with speech productions - slow, ungrammatical speech, jumbled sentences.

Mostly don’t have trouble understanding sentences.

Cannot process sentences with unclear syntax or sentences with more than one meaning. (meaning based word order flops)

Question 2

Wernicke’s aphasia

Definition and symptoms:

Answer 2

Problem with semantics( understanding meaning of lang)

Produced speech that was fluent and gramma nxa but tended to be incoherent ( no syntax flop)

Produce meaningless speech, also unable to understand speech and writing.

probs processing meanings of lang

difficulties in understanding and unable to comprehend sentneces

Question 3

Broca’s location in brain and significance in lang processing

Answer 3

the frontal lobe of the dominant hemisphere

Signif = understanding syntax of lang

Question 4

Wernicke’s location in brain and significance in lang processing

Answer 4

the posterior segment of the superior temporal gyrus in the dominant hemisphere

Sig = Understanding of semantics in lang