Temporal lobe

Question 1

Where is the temporal lobe located?

Answer 1

In the lower central part of the brain near the ears

Question 2

What happens when the temporal lobe is damaged?

Answer 2

There will be hearing loss/ deafness, memory impairment, disturbance of selective attention of auditory input, impaired organization & categorization of verbal material, hard to recognize faces and unable to comprehend speech.

Question 3

What are the key functions of the temporal lobe?

Answer 3

It plays an important role in our decision to perceive and remember certain features of an environment. It has a huge role in long term memory formation. It also helps us to identify faces and objects.

Question 4

What is the primary auditory cortex’s function?

Answer 4

It receives and processes sounds from both ears.

Question 5

The primary auditory cortex has 2 cortexes, what are they specialized in?

Answer 5

The left auditory cortex is specialized to hear verbal sounds such as voices and words. The right auditory cortex is specialized to hear non-verbal sounds such as music.

Question 6

What is Wernicke’s Aphasia?

Answer 6

It is when a patient has difficulty comprehending speech & have difficulty speaking in a meaningful way

Question 7

How will a patient with Wernicke’s Aphasia act?

Answer 7

The patient will most likely have fluent & grammatically correct speech but their words would be “strung together” but is not what is classified as understandable language (word salad)
✭e.g “Cookie candle to jar bar, outside mum bag.”