Finding And Understanding Words And Sentences Flashcards
What does the auditory input lexicon organises words into?
Cohorts
What are the models that people put forward for how we understand words?
Serial-processing at one stage must be completed before passed onto the next stage
Interactive - activation of a component within a system results in activation of all nodes associated with it.
How do you test the semantic system for problems recognising words?
Meaning judgments (such as picture matching)
What are the types of impairments when funding words?
Visual, mixed, neologism, circumlotion, preservation and no response
What are the variables that affect aphasic word finding?
The imaginability of the word
Word frequency in lexicon
Age of acquisition
How responsive the patient. Is to cues
Why are word finding tasks the most common features of a language impairment?
Size of lexicon
Arbitrary links between meaning and word form
Name three normal word finding problems?
Tip of the tongue, miss selections, transportation speech errors
What are the types of aphasia that have word finding difficulties?
Anomic
What tests are used with word finding difficulties?
Picture naming, anecdotes, story telling, picture description, conversation.
What is apraxia?
Loss of ability to carry out voluntary muscle movements for the production of speech
What is parsing ?
Indent infusing the structurally salient chunks in an input
What is agrammatic aphasia?
Difficulty understanding sentences and producing grammatically eel formed sentences.
What is the area and name of the artery that is most prone to stroke?
Area: left peri-sylvan area
Artery: middle cerebral artery
What are the causes of aphasia .
Vascuar (disruption of the blood supply), blockage, burst (haemorrhage), tumour, infections, trauma, focal degeneration.
Describe fluent aphasia.
Fluent speech with errors. Comprehension impaired. Have word finding difficulties and have trouble understanding sentences.
Non-fluent aphasia, describe
Broken international contours, incomplete sentences and effortful articulation. Speech may be agrammatic.
Comprehension is good, word finding difficulties and persivation.
What are the symptoms of wernickes aphasia?
Fluent speech
Word finding difficulties
Paragrammatism
Input processing impaired
What are the symptoms of brocas aphasia?
Non fluent speech
Word finding difficulties
Agrammatism
Understanding relatively good
What is anomic aphasia?
Fluent production
Disturbance in word finding
Comprehension good
What is conduction aphasia?
Disturbance repeating words
Fluent speech
Difficulty with spontaneous speech
Good comprehension
What is paragrammatism?
Mis selection of function words
What is transcortical sensory aphasia?
Fluent speech
Poor comprehension
Relatively intact repetition
What is transcortical motor aphasia?
Non-fluent production
Good comprehension
Intact repetition
What is Global aphasia ?
Non-fluent production
Disturbance of all language functions
Poor comprehension
