Localisation Of Function

Question 1

Language centres

Answer 1

Broca + wernicke

Question 2

Broca

Answer 2

Found small area in left frontal lobe is responsible for speech production
Damage to Broca’s area causes broca’s aphasia

Question 3

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 3

These individuals can understand speech but have slow speech that is not fluent e.g can’t say ‘a’ ‘the’ ‘and’
(Prepositions + conjunctions)
Broca’s most famous patient (aphasia) - ‘tan’ cause that was all he could say, but he could understand + communicate with gestures

Question 4

Wernicke

Answer 4

Found small area in left temporal lobe is responsible for language comprehension
Damage to wernicke’s area causes wernicke’s aphasia

Question 5

Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 5

These individuals have problems understanding speech but no problems producing it
Words they produce r often nonsense words (neologisms) when speaking (find it difficult to find the right word)

Question 6

Key characteristics Broca

Answer 6

Difficulty forming complete sentences
May get message across with simple words but leave out words like ‘is’ + ‘the’

Question 7

Key characteristics wernicke

Answer 7

Grammatical but nonsensical speech
May sound fluent but is a string of meaningless words
May fail to realise they r saying the wrong words e.g might call a fork a gleeble

Question 8

Aphasia meaning

Answer 8

Disorder of production and/or comprehension of speech