Broca's

Question 1

Neurologic Damage

Answer 1

Anterior frontal areas (inferior frontal gyrus)

pre-motor area & motor strip

insula

BG (if lesion is very deep)

Question 2

Speech

Answer 2

fluency is impared

sparse, labored, effortful

halting, telegraphic

phonemic paraphasias

missing function words & bound morphemes

aware of errors

agrammatic; verbs difficult, more content words

if they have sentences, they are SVO

lots of repetitions, fillers, pauses, hesitancies

poor intonation & prosody

Question 3

Naming

Answer 3

impaired

preserved semantics, but cannot get word out

limited vocab

more content words

few verbs

Question 4

Comprehension

Answer 4

relatively preserved

above the 50th percentile

most trouble comprehending syntax due to aggrammatism

impaired with regard to complex sentences

Question 5

Repetition

Answer 5

impaired

articulation errors (phonemic paraphasias??)

can’t do sentence repetition

Question 6

Reading

Answer 6

mildly impaired

mirrors auditory comprehension (so, trouble with lengthy and complex text)

Question 7

Writing

Answer 7

impaired

mirrors speech production difficulties