Language Development and The Brain

Question 1

Arcuate fasciculus

Answer 1

a pathway that connects Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area

Question 2

Aphasia

Answer 2

difficulty in producing or comprehending language (damage to Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area)

Question 3

Which part of the brain is connected to learning in Broca’s area?

Answer 3

left frontal cortex

Question 4

Which part of the brain is connected to learning in Wernicke’s area?

Answer 4

left temporal cortex

Question 5

Broca’s area

Answer 5

Involved in production of sequential patterns in vocal and sign languages

Question 6

Damage to Broca’s area

Answer 6

Struggle with speech production

Speak in short, staccato phrases that consist mostly of content morphemes

Function morphemes are missing

Question 7

Wernicke’s area

Answer 7

Involved in language comprehension (spoken or sign)

Question 8

Damage to Wernicke’s area

Answer 8

Have a difficult time comprehending language (spoken or signed)

Question 9

Linguistic relativity hypothesis

Answer 9

language shapes the nature of thought

Question 10

Who championed the linguistic relativity hypothesis?

Answer 10

Whorf

Question 11

What is one universal finding pertaining to codability?

Answer 11

Smell had the lowest codability scores across virtually all languages