Language

Question 1

2 components of speech

Answer 1

phonation and articulation

Question 2

sound made by moving vocal cords (vagal innervation)

Answer 2

phonation

Question 3

sound made by movements of tongue/lips/palate

Answer 3

articulation

Question 4

language hemisphere

Answer 4

dominant hemisphere - left for almost everyone

Question 5

vascular territory for language centers

Answer 5

MCA

Question 6

disorder of previously acquired language ability due to lesion in language center

Answer 6

aphasia

Question 7

ease and facility of speech

Answer 7

fluency

Question 8

imperfect repetition seen with lesions where?

Answer 8

Perisylvian areas -

broca’s, wernicke’s, or arcuate fasciculus

Question 9

abnormal word or syllable substitution

Answer 9

paraphasia

Question 10

paraphasia’s seen w/ which aphasia

Answer 10

Wernicke’s

Question 11

nonsensical or foreign sounding word

Answer 11

neologism

Question 12

posterior inferior frontal lobe lesion in dominant hemisphere

Answer 12

broca’s aphasia

Question 13

impaired fluency
preserved comprehension
imperfect repetition

Answer 13

broca’s aphasia

Question 14

posterior superior temporal lobe lesion in dominant hemisphere

Answer 14

wernicke’s aphasia

Question 15

why may pt w/ broca’s aphasia also have R hemiparesis

Answer 15

lesion may involve primary motor cortex (next to broca’s area)

Question 16

preserved fluency
impaired comprehension
imperfect repetition

Answer 16

wernicke’s aphasia

Question 17

lesion of arcuate fasciculus

Answer 17

conduction aphasia

Question 18

lesion damaging entire Perisylvian language region

Answer 18

global aphasia

Question 19

global aphasia often accompanied by

Answer 19

severe hemiplegia

Question 20

impaired reading

Answer 20

alexia

Question 21

impaired writing

Answer 21

agraphia

Question 22

semantic and emotional meaning of language via pitch/inflection/tone

Answer 22

prosody

Question 23

prosody determined by which brain location

Answer 23

nondominant hemisphere (mirror image of language centers)

Question 24

lesion of nondominant hemisphere (mirror image of language centers)

Answer 24

aprosodia

Question 25

lesion of nondominant posterior superior temporal lobe

Answer 25

sensory aprosodia - difficulty understanding emotional context

Question 26

lesion of nondominant posterior inferior frontal lobe

Answer 26

motor aprosodia - doesn’t use prosody when speaking