Neural bases Flashcards
Frontal lobe
Specialized for the production of speech and carries out motor functions
Temporal lobe
Specialized for language comprehension as it caries out audit functions
Broca’s areas
Left ventral posterior frontal lobe, partly responsible for production of speech
Broca’s aphasia
Halting, repeating and disordered structure. Motor/preduction aphasia. Comprehension remains
Wernicke’s area
Left posterior and superior temporal lobe, responsible for comprehension
Wernicke’s aphasia
Fluent aphasia, inappropriate word use making it non understandable
Left hemisphere
Right visual field ,right hand
Lexical and syntactical language
Writing
Speech
Right hemisphere
Left visual field
Prosody
Spatial abilities
Limited, basic speech
Prosody
Emotional colouring of language involving inflections of tone, rhythm and stress. Aprosodia is deficiency, resulting in robotic monotonic speech.