Neural bases Flashcards

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Frontal lobe

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Specialized for the production of speech and carries out motor functions

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Temporal lobe

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Specialized for language comprehension as it caries out audit functions

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Broca’s areas

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Left ventral posterior frontal lobe, partly responsible for production of speech

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Broca’s aphasia

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Halting, repeating and disordered structure. Motor/preduction aphasia. Comprehension remains

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Wernicke’s area

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Left posterior and superior temporal lobe, responsible for comprehension

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Fluent aphasia, inappropriate word use making it non understandable

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Left hemisphere

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Right visual field ,right hand
Lexical and syntactical language
Writing
Speech

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Right hemisphere

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Left visual field
Prosody
Spatial abilities
Limited, basic speech

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Prosody

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Emotional colouring of language involving inflections of tone, rhythm and stress. Aprosodia is deficiency, resulting in robotic monotonic speech.

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