Brocas and Wernickes aphasia

Question 1

deficits in Borcas- agrammatism

Answer 1

difficulty in using grammatical constructions but also word order to decode sentences

so effects structure in a sentence

Question 2

deficits in Brocas - Anomia

Answer 2

difficulties in findings words especially function words

Question 3

deficits in Brocas- articulation

Answer 3

mispronounciations, often alter the sequences of sounds

Question 4

other aspects to Brocas-

Answer 4

damage to the motor central areas of the left hemisphere may result in poor writing and other motor impairments

find using function words difficult

Question 5

what is conduction aphasia

Answer 5

poor speech repetition
due to damage in parietal lobe in the brain
they have intact auditory comprehension and speech production

Question 6

wernickes deficits= spoken word recognition

Answer 6

recognition is perceptual, you can recognise a word without knowing its meaning. damage to recognition is called pure word deafness and is caused by damage to the left temporal lobe

Question 7

wernickes deficits- language comprehension

Answer 7

failure to comprehend meaning of words or express thoughts in meaningful speech

caused by damage to the posterior language area
this area links to transcortical sensory aphasia= people can repeat words so recognise words but dont know the meaning of the words they are repeating

Question 8

wernickes deficits-converting thoughts into words

Answer 8

meaning of word is defined by a particular memory it is assocated with, stored in the brin regions of the association cortex

difficulty converting thoughts into words= fluent aphasia