College 2 Flashcards
What are the brodmann area’s?
Distinct regrions in the cerebral cortex that serve as a foundation for studying brain functions
What is Aphasia?
Language disorders caused by brain damage
Which 3 types of aphasia are there?
Broca’s, Wernicke’s and Conduction
What is Broca’s aphasia?
- halting speech
- difficulty in word selection
- challenge in handling compelx sentence structures
- affects close-class words
What is Wernicke’s Aphaisia
- indivudals produce fluent but often nonsensical speech
- Word retrieval
- invented words
- difficulty understanding spoken/written language
What is Conduction Aphasia?
- difficulty repeating speech verbatism
- speech production/comprehension in tact
- inability to maintain phonological information actively
In which 2 systems does Declarative-procedural model devide?
Declarative memory and procedural memory
Wat is declarative memory?
knowledge about facts and events. memory about what
What is procedural memory?
Relates to actions. memory about how
What is fMRI
functional Brain imaging Techniques
it observes brain activity by tracking changes in blood flow
What is a limitation of fMRI
limited timing precision
What is ERP?
Event-Related Potentials
it relies on electic potentials measured at the scalp to gain information about timing
What is an limitation of ERP?
Weak localisation
Were does most of the basic language processing occur?
Left hemisphere
What ear do linguistic judgements favor?
right
What ear do emotional judgement favor?
left
What is white matter?
it is a information highway in the brain
What does the Dual-Network account model suggest?
the existence of dinstinct neural networks for various language tasks, speech perception and language production
Through what do neurons communicate?
electrical signaling
What is joint attention
the awareness between two or more individuals that hey are paying attention to the same thing.
What is the domain general perspective?
Language difficulties are seen as part of broader thinking and cognitive challenges.
What is the domain-specific perspective
The belief that language problems are specific to language mechanisms, not shared with other cognitive abilities.
What is the williams syndrome?
a genetic syndrome, a learning disability.
What is specific language impairment?
disorder in which children fial to develop language normally even though there is no disorder or damage.
