Quiz 4 Flashcards
(15 cards)
According to analyses of language lateralization, the only language function found to be localized strictly in the left hemisphere is
Syntax
Following a traumatic brain injury, damage was found in the motor areas of the left hemisphere, and there was impairment in the neural connections of the mirror neurons. Damage to these areas may disrupt a young child’s ability to:
create sounds and mimic language presented to them.
A patient who has difficulty finding words and has laborious, slow, halting speech is showing signs of:
nonfluent aphasia.
Studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation have suggested a close relationship between areas responsible for:
language and mouth movements
The vocal intonation that helps us understand the literal meaning of what people say is termed:
prosody
A patient who can comprehend speech, produce meaningful speech, and repeat speech but has great difficulty in finding the names of objects likely has sustained damage to the _____ lobe.
inferior temporal
The effects on language functions of direct electrical stimulation of the cortex have been confirmed using the noninvasive technique of:
transcranial magnetic stimulation
Following a traumatic brain injury, a patient was found to have difficulty articulating words but could still read and understand meaning. Months following the injury, the patient was found to have substantial improvement in the ability to produce phonemes and words. What was potentially damaged in the brain?
sensory and motor areas of the face
Damage to the right hemisphere affects aspects of language, including:
generation and perception of prosody
Language is a combination of the following four abilities:
sequencing behavior, categorization, mimicry, and category labeling
Tests of language abilities in split-brain subjects show that the right hemisphere has:
good language comprehension but poor production abilities.
Results from electrical stimulation and imaging studies of conscious patients suggest that:
localizationist theories that posit strict separation of speech comprehension and production are incorrect
Which ability proposed to be necessary for language is MOST likely to depend on the mirror neuron system?
mimicry
Reduced verbal fluency and difficulties in comprehension and production of prosody have been reported following damage to the _____ cortex.
right orbitofrontal
Dronkers and colleagues conclude that apraxia of speech is caused by damage to:
the insula
