Localising Language In The Brain (B)

Question 1

Commentators have taken two views of the place of language in the brain?

Answer 1

1-That language is restricted to a single location.

2- That language is widely distributed throughout the brain.

Question 2

What is aphasia?

Answer 2

When patients lose some of their powers of speech.

Question 3

Which two areas seem to be closely associated with the processing of language by the brain?

Answer 3

1) Broca’s area

2) Werknicke’s area

Question 4

Paul Broca (1863) found that problems with language appeared to have resulted from a brain lesion , where?

Answer 4

On the left side of the head, in front of the ear and slightly below the top.

Question 5

Carl Wernicke (1874) found that problems with language appeared to have resulted from damage to a different area, where?

Answer 5

Just behind and above the left ear.

Question 6

Broca’s aphasia features? (6)

Answer 6

1-Effortful speech 
2-pausing 
3-almost no syntax
4-few function words/affixes
5-mainly concrete nouns
6-comprehension often good.

Question 7

Wernicke’s aphasia features (6)

Answer 7

1-Effortless speech
2-fluent/rapid
3-syntactically well structured
4-Function words/affixes
5-Many general nouns (thing, person)
6-Comprehension severely impaired.

Question 8

There is evidence that different lexical sets (colours, foods, tools etc) may be stored in different areas?

Answer 8

true