Workshop 10: Wernicke's aphasia

Question 1

Conduction aphasia cause?

Answer 1

caused by damage to the pathway between broca’s area and Wernicke’s area: arcuate fasciculus

meaningful fluent speech and comprehension, but poor repetition

Question 2

In right handed people what is a key feature of the right side of the brain for
language?

Answer 2

Understanding metaphor and similes

(4% have right side dominance)

Question 3

Bilingualism results in….

Answer 3

Improvements in executive functioning and problem solving

Question 4

What is prosody?

Answer 4

Patterns of stress and intonation

Question 5

Phonagnosia is…

Answer 5

Difficulty recognising voices

Question 6

What type of agnosia results in a diminished ability for spontaneous speech and a loss of
normal grammatical structure?

Answer 6

Broca’s aphasia

Question 7

Wernicke’s aphasia: symptoms

Answer 7

▪ Poor spoken language comprehension
▪ Lack ability to interpret meanings of words
▪ Inability to convert thoughts to words
▪ Production of meaningless speech
▪ Speech fluent and absence of any strain or searching of words
▪ Use of function words but not many content words
▪ Lack self-awareness of condition
▪ Maintain social conventions of conversation