Thinking, planning & language Flashcards
What concept cells do?
Form the basis of our semantic memory
What is FFA?
Fusiform face area, critical for recognizing faces
How we call face blindness?
Prosopagnosia
What means fMRI?
Functional magnetic resonance imaging
What area recognizes written letters and words?
Visual word form area (VWFA)
How we call language disorders?
Aphasias
What is Broca’s area vital for?
Speech production
What is Wernicke’s area vital for?
Understanding others’ speech
How is Broca’s aphasia called?
“Non-fluent” aphasia - speech output is slow, halting, but they understand non-complex sentences
How is Wernicke’s aphasia called?
“Fluent” aphasia - understand short words, speech sounds normal, but often with errors
What is “pure word deafness”?
Aphasia type when person can’t understand heard language in any level, but can understand written language
Where brains most complex processes occur?
In prefrontal cortex (PFC) - last region to develop
What prefrontal cortex does?
Support executive functions (working memory, decision making, behavior)
