Brocas And Wernicks Area

Question 1

Where is Broca’s area

Answer 1

In the frontal lobe

Question 2

What does Broca’s area do

Answer 2

-production of speech and sentence structure
-moves the muscles required to speak

Question 3

Supporting evidence of localisation of function in the brain and brocas area and a limitation of it

Answer 3

Patient TAN
- could only say tan
-studied his brain using scans once he died and shows damage to frontal lobe
-shows speech is localised in frontal lobe and that speech production is in Broca’s area
- 8 other patients with language deficit had damage to this area

✖️- the brain was studied after death could have been damaged in removal.
-there was also damage to other areas so language could have been localised there.

✔️- objective scientific data

Question 4

Side effects of damage to Broca’s area and whats it called

Answer 4

Brocas aphasia - trouble with speech- short simple sentences
-can’t read and write as well

Question 5

Where is Wernicks areas

Answer 5

Temporal lobe

Question 6

What does wernicks area do

Answer 6

-Involved in interpretation / processing of speech ‘language Comprehension centre’

Question 7

What happens if wernicks area is damaged and whats it called

Answer 7

Wernicks aphasia- Can’t comprehend / understand language - sounds like nonsense

Question 8

Evaluation of wernicks area

Answer 8

✖️we should study the brain holistically as no one part acts individually

✔️- MRI scans mean we study brain scientifically
-TAN