Language and Memory Flashcards
The cerebral hemisphere that is dominant in facial expression, intonation, body language, spatial task.
Right cerebral hemisphere
___ aphasia wherein the patient can say but cant understand
Wernicke or receptive
Broca Aphasia - can understand but cannot say
Lesion in the ____ can lead to anomic aphasia
Agnular gyrus
Lesion in the ____ leads to unilateral attention and neglect
Inferior parietal lobule
The memory is mainly stored in ______
temporal lobe
Hippocampus only encodes
The reward center is located in the ____ of the hippocampus
medial forebrain bundle
The punishment center is located in the ____ of the hippocampus
central gray area
Retrograde amnesia occurs whenever there is a lesion in the ___
Thalamus
The thalamus plays a role in recall memory. So the patient cant recall previously-formed memories.
Anterograde amnesia occurs in ____ lesions
Hippocampus
The hippocampus encodes new memory so damaging it results to inability to form new memories this anterograde amnesia
The area of the brain that plays a role for production of inappropriate emotional responses.
Amygdala
___ encodes events of the past into long-term memory
hippocampus
At the hippocampus, reward center
medial forebrain bundle
at the hippocampus, punishment center
central gray area surrounding the aqueduct of sylvius
____ is the process of converting short term and long term memory
consolidation
factors that promote consolidation
rehearsal
sleep
adequate nutrition
