Neural bases

Question 1

Frontal lobe

Answer 1

Specialized for the production of speech and carries out motor functions

Question 2

Temporal lobe

Answer 2

Specialized for language comprehension as it caries out audit functions

Question 3

Broca’s areas

Answer 3

Left ventral posterior frontal lobe, partly responsible for production of speech

Question 4

Broca’s aphasia

Answer 4

Halting, repeating and disordered structure. Motor/preduction aphasia. Comprehension remains

Question 5

Wernicke’s area

Answer 5

Left posterior and superior temporal lobe, responsible for comprehension

Question 6

Wernicke’s aphasia

Answer 6

Fluent aphasia, inappropriate word use making it non understandable

Question 7

Left hemisphere

Answer 7

Right visual field ,right hand
Lexical and syntactical language
Writing
Speech

Question 8

Right hemisphere

Answer 8

Left visual field
Prosody
Spatial abilities
Limited, basic speech

Question 9

Prosody

Answer 9

Emotional colouring of language involving inflections of tone, rhythm and stress. Aprosodia is deficiency, resulting in robotic monotonic speech.