Temporal Lobe

Question 1

Define: primary auditory cortex

Answer 1

Receives and processes different features and types of sound from both ears.

Question 2

What is meant by “features of sound?”

Answer 2

Frequency (ie. pitch) and intensity (ie. loudness). Different parts process different features.

Question 3

What is meant by “types of sounds”

Answer 3

Verbal and non-verbal

verbal processed in left PAC and vice versa

Question 4

What may damage to the primaryauditory cortex cause?

Answer 4

Forms of deafness

Question 5

What is the association area responsible for?

Answer 5

Processing LTM’s, object and facial recognition; visual perception

Question 6

Roles of the left temporal lobe - the effect of damage?

Answer 6

Language comprehesion - Wernicke’s aphasia

Question 7

Roles of the right temporal lobe - damage?

Answer 7

Recognising songs, faces, paintings; inability to recognise these.

Question 8

Define: Wernicke’s area

Answer 8

Comprehending speech, in particular interpreting the sounds of human speech and the meaning of language.
Locating appropriate words from memory to express intended meanings

Question 9

Where is wernicke’s area located?

Answer 9

Left temporal lobe, under PAC.

Question 10

2 functions of wernicke’s area?

Answer 10

• Speech comprehension: interprets the sound of human speech (can’t understand speech w/o it)
• Locates appropriate words from memory to express meaning verbally

Question 11

How do Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas communicate?

Answer 11

THrough a bundle of nerve fibres