Language

Question 1

Which imaging tests are used for monitering language

Answer 1

fMRIs and PET

Question 2

ERPs

Answer 2

non invasive and used to measure brain activity during cog processing

Question 3

TMIs?

Answer 3

coil placed a the back of the head and mag field enters the brain causing generation/ interruption of nn impulses

Question 4

APHASIA - define

Answer 4

a partial or complete loss of language resulting from an organic cause

Question 5

what is brocas aphasia

Answer 5

cant produce fluent speech, doesnt make sense. telegraphic anomia agrammatism

Question 6

define

1. telegraphic
2. anomia
3. agrammatism
4. semantic paraphrases
5. anosogonosia

Answer 6

1. Unessential words left out
2. Difficulty finding words that label objects
3. Problems processing grammatically complex sentences
4. gets wrong word horse for cow
5. unaware they’ve got the deficit

Question 7

describe wernickes aphasia

Answer 7

fluent speech but doesnt make sense ‘word salad’ anosogonosia, semantic paraphrases

Question 8

What is conduction aphasia

Answer 8

dont understand words that arent real

Question 9

transcortical sensory aphasia + when does it arrise

Answer 9

repeat words, cant produce meaningful speech spontanously or comprehend meaning of what they hear

arrises when damage to the most posterior language area

Question 10

language disorder in schizophrenics

Answer 10

formal thought disorder - loss of goals and tangentiality

resembles wenickes

Question 11

two types of reading

Answer 11

whole word and phoenetic reading

Question 12

describe the two types of dyslexia

Answer 12

surface dyslexia - trouble with whole word reading but can spell out phonetically
deep dyslexia - cant spell phoneticall. often semantic paraphrasing. non familiar words read poorly