Lanuage Left Lateralised

Question 1

What are the 2 areas involved in language?

Answer 1

Broca’s area

Wernicke’s area

Question 2

Where is Broca’s area?

Answer 2

Back of the frontal lobe

Question 3

Where is Wernicke’s area?

Answer 3

Temporal lobe

Question 4

What is Broca’s area linked to?

Answer 4

Speech production

Question 5

What is Wernicke’s area linked to?

Answer 5

Speech comprehension

Question 6

What does Broca’s aphasia cause?

Answer 6

Speech production difficulties
No fluent sentences
They have a strong understanding of the Qs

Question 7

What does Wernicke’s aphasia cause?

Answer 7

Lots of random speech

Question 8

When was Broca’s area discovered?

Answer 8

During Tan’s post-mortem

Question 9

What are the 3 evaluative points?

Answer 9

Case studies
Brain scan evidence
Neurosurgery

Question 10

What did brain scans show?

Answer 10

That memory and language have “seats” in the brain

Question 11

What did case studies show and why is it bad?

Answer 11

Only specific to the individual
BAD BECAUSE
cannot be generalised

Question 12

Why is neurosurgery negative?

Answer 12

Invasive

Irreversible

Question 13

What are the 2 types of neurosurgery?

Answer 13

Lobotomy

Leucotomy

Question 14

What is a lobotomy?

Answer 14

Removal of healthy brain tissues

Question 15

Who had a lobotomy?

Answer 15

HM (to stop epilepsy)

Question 16

What is a leucotomy?

Answer 16

Severing the connection between brain areas