Language

Question 1

Function of Wernicke’s area?

Answer 1

Comprehension of spoken language

Question 2

Function of Broca’s area?

Answer 2

Instruction for language output
Planning movements to produce speech
Grammar

Question 3

Area analagous to Broca’s?

Answer 3

Instructions for producing non-verbal communication (gestures and intonation of speech)

Question 4

Area analagous to Wernicke’s?

Answer 4

Interpreting nonverbal signals from others

Question 5

What is the pathway of language?

Answer 5

1. Primary auditory cortex
2. Auditory association cortex
3. Wernicke’s area
4. Subcortical connections (arcuate fibers)
5. Broca’s area
6. Oral and throat region of sensorimotor complex

Question 6

What does the lateral temporal complex do?

Answer 6

Semantic knowledge and word recognition (knowing that C-A-T is cat)

Question 7

Auditory Agnosia

Answer 7

• Inability to identify an object despite being able to perceive it
• Cannot describe a sound that has been heard

Question 8

What does a lesion to the unimodal sensory association cortex bilaterally result in?

Answer 8

Auditory agnosia

Question 9

What type is receptive aphasia?

Answer 9

Wernicke’s

Question 10

What type is expressive aphasia?

Answer 10

Broca’s

Question 11

Characteristics of Wernicke’s area lesion?

Answer 11

• Receptive/fluent aphasia
• Unable to understand what is said to them
• Alexia
• Agraphia
• Fluent paraphasic speech
• Word salad maybe

Question 12

Characteristics of Broca’s area lesion?

Answer 12

• Expressive/non-fluent aphasia
• Possible mutism
• Less severe show limited speech
• Slow, labored, poorly enunciated speech
• Nonessential words omitted

Question 13

Global lesion

Answer 13

• results in global aphasia (both Broca’s and Wernicke’s gone)
• D/t lesion of lateral sulcus

Question 14

Transcortical lesion

Answer 14

• Motor or sensory

- Can repeat

Question 15

Conduction aphasia

Answer 15

• D/t lesion @ supramarginal gyrus and arcuate fasciculus
• Cannot repeat
• Good comprehension
• Intact fluency
• Reading intact, writing impaired
• Word-finding difficulties

Question 16

What vasculature is responsible for a transcortical motor lesion?

Answer 16

ACA-MCA border zone

Question 17

What vasculature is responsible for a transcortical sensory lesion?

Answer 17

MCA-PCA border zone

Question 18

What region is responsible for a Broca’s area lesion?

Answer 18

Left inferior frontal gyrus

Question 19

What region is responsible for a Wernicke’s area lesion?

Answer 19

• Left superior temporal gyrus
• Inferior parietal lobule
• Posterior middle temporal gyrus

Question 20

What region is responsible for a conduction aphasia lesion?

Answer 20

Arcuate Fasciculus

Question 21

What are the characteristics of a transcortical sensory lesion?

Answer 21

• Fluent
• Grammar preserved
• Comprehension impaired
• Naming impaired
• Repetition preserved

Question 22

What are the characteristics of a transcortical motor lesion?

Answer 22

• Nonfluent
• Grammar preserved
• Comprehension normal
• Naming preserved
• Repetition preserved

Question 23

What are the characteristics of a conduction lesion?

Answer 23

• Fluent
• Grammar preserved
• Comprehension normal
• Naming preserved
• Repetition impaired

Question 24

What are the characteristics of a Broca’s lesion?

Answer 24

• Nonfluent
• Grammar impaired
• Comprehension impaired for complex sentences
• Naming preserved
• Repetition impaired for complex sentences

Question 25

What are the characteristics of a Wernicke's lesion?

Answer 25

- Fluent - Grammar may be normal - Comprehension impaired for single words - Naming impaired - Repetition impaired for single words