Week 1 Flashcards

1
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What disorder is associated with language-processing/sound meaning issues?

A

phonological disorders

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What are missing information sources for understasnding communication disabilities?
psycholinguistic
neuroimaging
slp/brain damaged individuals
neurochemistry
genetics
animal models
A

computational neuroscience

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3
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What does modularity have to do with psycholinguistic models of speech and language?

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defining whether the patient deals with particular types of word (e.g., function or content, abstract or concrete words)

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What type of model is connectionism, as associated with psycholinguistic models of speech and language?

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computer models

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5
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Liberman established a theory in 1967 that looked at referencing articulatory gestures, as associated with psycholinguistic models of speech and language. What is it?

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motor theory of language perception

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Theory of mind, the idea of imitation, as well as understanding empathy is associated with what psycholinguistic model of speech and language?

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mirror neurons

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7
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Ullman established in 2001 a model of memory as associated with what psycholinguistic model of speech and language?

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declarative-procedural model of memory

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Baddeley et al., and Cowan created models that looked at memory as a psycholinguistic model of speech and language. What were they?

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working memory models

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9
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What are Theory of Mind, Central Coherence Theory, and Executive function Theory associated with?

A

Autism-spectrum

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10
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What is associated with Central Coherence Theory?

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an inability to “see through the trees” since one is lost in details

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11
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What group of children tend to have more issues with Theory of Mind and why?

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deaf children of hearing parents that are not fluent in sign language; they haven’t an ability to communicate or be communicated with fully

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12
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What theory is associated with problems with memory in the psycholinguistic models of speech and language?

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Executive Function Theory

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13
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What type of imaging techniques are used for communication disorders?
electromagnetic techniques
haemodynamic techniques and

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stimulation techniques

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14
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What are examples of temporal imaging techniques?

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EEG/ERPs or MEG
(electromagnetic techniques)
x

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15
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What type of model is connectionism, as associated with psycholinguistic models of speech and language?

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MEG

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What are examples of Haemodynamic techniques?
fMRI
PET
DTI

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SPECT

NIRS

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17
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What are spatial techniques?

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Haemodynamic imaging techniques

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18
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What are stimulation techniques?

A

those that create and suppress in imaging

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19
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What are considerd passive imaging techniques?

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both electromagnetic and haemodynamic techniques

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20
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What is the main stimulation imaging technique?

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rTMS

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21
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What is the main role of neruoimaging?

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validate and inform psycholinguistic models

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22
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What do we need to do even when neuroimaging validates and informs our psycholinguistic models?

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we need to continue to seek to understand language itself, and how it works

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23
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What challenges our hypotheses and psycholinguistic theories?

A

neuroimaging

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24
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What does neuroimaging reveal that may not have been apparent before?

A

relationships

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25
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What does neuroimaging promote, and what does it help to do further?

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promotes understanding of psycholinguistic models, and how to develop them further

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26
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What does neuroimaging have to do with assessment and intervention procedures?

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it informs and validates assessment and intervention procedures

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27
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Neuroimaging encourages a win-win situation but…

A

one needs to keep aware of the limitations of all approaches to the study of communication disabilities

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28
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What is the main approach t hat I have coined the “hope this works” appraoch?

A

hypothesis testing approach

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29
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What is the hypothesis testing approach a.k.a.?

A

the cognitive neuropsychological approach

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30
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What does the hypothesis testing approach use to conclude which processing functions are intact, and which are not?

A

errors that the client makes

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31
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What must be collected for the hypothesis testing approach, and why is it done?

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data must be collected under different conditions to fully understand the underlying deficit in the system

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32
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What must data be compared to in the hypothesis testing approach?

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data must be compred to performance of neurotypical individuals

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33
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What is NT?

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neurotypical individuals (“normal”

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34
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Why is the hypothesis testing approach helpful in interventions?

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it lends itself well to ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of intervention

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35
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What is the major starting point when analyzing speech in the hypothesis testing approach?

A

auditory analysis

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36
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What is the major starting point when assessing pictures, seen objects or print in the hypothesis testing approach?

A

visual feature analysis

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37
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“George” had difficulties with recalling specific words, but they didn’t have phonetic/phonemic errors. What kind of paraphasia does this describe?

A

semantic

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38
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If “George” had difficulties with recalling specific words but had phonetic/phonemic errors, what kind of paraphasia does this describe?

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phonemic paraphasia

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39
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When assessing George’s semantic paraphasia, what method assesses circumlocutions, definitions, and semantic field errors?

A

picture naming

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40
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What type of paraphasia is associated with testing nearly 100% in receptive single word vocab?

A

semantic paraphasia

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41
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What type of testing nearly 100% in higher level semantics is associated with semantic paraphasia?

A

presenting 2 pictures, and deciding if they are synonymous

42
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What type of impairment is typical with semantic paraphasia?

A

selection/retrieval of word from phonological output lexicon

43
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How is George’s semantic paraphasia best treated?

A

strengthening word retrieval through combining meaning AND phonology

44
Q

Hyperlexia is associated with a difficulty of _ but an understanding of _

A

semantics

phonemes/phonetics

45
Q

Broca’s aphasia is associated with

left cerebral hemorrhage, retaining personality, reduced expressive language and

A

good repetition (no damage to arcuate fasciculus)

46
Q

A laryngectomy is associated with retained _ language, but reduced _ language

A

comprehensive

reduced expressive

47
Q

Who suggested phrenology was a science?

A

Franz Josef Gal

48
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What area is associated with a cyst in the lower left frontal lobe?

A

Sylvian fissure

49
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What was originally seen as the site of articulate language production, and then later associated with comprehension?

A

Broca’s area

50
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Can deaf women who use sign language lose expressive language when experiencing a stroke in the left part of the brain (Wernicke’s area)?

A

absolutely

51
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What type of patient is associated with incontinent fluency, yet are typically incomprehensible and do not easily understand or even repeat what is said to them

A

Wernicke’s aphasia

52
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What is associated with damage to the arcuate fasciculus and issues repeating words, according to John Hewlings Jackson?

A

conduction aphasia

53
Q

Neurons conduct

A

electrical signals

54
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_ carries messages to other cells

A

axons

55
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Short spines that increase surface area of a neuron to receive signals from other neurons are called

A

dendrites

56
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Activation of the _ generates an action potential, carrying neural messages down the axon, with end branches called _

A

axon hillock

terminals

57
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The end of axon terminals are found_

A

synapses

58
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_ are released from the presynaptic neuron to the receptor at the postsynaptic neuron

A

neurotransmitters

59
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Neurotransmitters activate the _ process to continue messaging along neurons

A

electrochemical

60
Q

The central nervous system includes the brain and

A

spinal cord

61
Q

the brain is composed of the cerebrum, brainstem, cerebellum, and

A

diencephalon

62
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The cerebral hemisphered are covered with _ matter, underneath of which is found a deeper layer of neural tracts, known as _ matter

A

gray

white

63
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The _ lobe is associated with thinking, motion, speech, planning of motions

A

frontal

64
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The _ lobe is associated with input of the eyes

A

occipital

65
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The _ lobe is associated with hearing, feeling emotions, perceiving form and colour, understanding speech, and smell

A

temporal

66
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The _ lobe is involved with the senses of the skin, pain, touch, position of arms and legs in space, auditory and visual senses (partly) too

A

parietal

67
Q

The diencephalon is composed of the

A

hypothalamus and thalamus

68
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The thalamus is involved with

A

input of sense organs, moving to cerebral cortex

69
Q

The hypothalamus is associated with hormonal regulation and

A

the autonomic nervous system

70
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The _ involved control of breathing, circulation, perception of pain, heat regulation, and organization of simple movements

A

brainstem

71
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Damage to the _ can be fatal

A

brainstem

72
Q

The _ is associated with coordination of movements, posture, learning motor skills

A

cerebellum

73
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The medulla is asociated with transitions from an opening from the base of the skull downwards to the spinal cord, as a part of the

A

brainstem

74
Q

The _ nervous system involves motor nerves, whereas the _ nervous system is associated with regulating internal organs and glands

A

somatic

autonomic

75
Q

The _ moves relays info from the muscles and internal organs, both senses and movements

A

spinal cord

76
Q

Transduction is stimuli translated iinto…

A

electrical signals up through the nervous system, arriving via different nerve fibres stimulating different brain centres

77
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Perception is the process that the cerebral cortex does to combine, analyze, and interpret

A

sensations

78
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_ is the dominant sense, with 70% of sensory receptors and 1/2 of the cerebral cortex involved with it

A

vision

79
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Light receptor cells are divided into _ and _

A

rods and cones

80
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The _ are stimulated by light that is red, green, and/orb blue

A

cones

81
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action potentials from the cones are transmitted from the optic nerve to the _, where they are relayed to areas of the brain

A

thalamus

82
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_ is produced by analyzing vibrating sound wavest through the air that move outward from its object, and reaching the pinna

A

hearing

83
Q

The outer ear meets the middle at the

A

tympanic membrane

84
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The tympanic membrance reaches the pistons of the middle ear that transmit vibrations to the oval window, known as the

A

ossicles

85
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The inner ear begins at the _, within which are found the organ of corti, the receptor of hearing located within at its cilia, and vibrations create action potentials to the auditory nerve leading to the brain - primary auditory cortex, secondary, and higher-order auditory cortex

A

cochlea

86
Q

Gustation is the sense of taste, of that is relayed from the _ which has the taste buds that are activated by water soluble things in the saliva

A

lingual papillae

87
Q

There are _ senses of taste

A

5

88
Q

The _ create a greater surface area in the nose in order to afor the olfactor receptors to identify smells

A

olfactory epithelium

89
Q

Olfactory cilia are activated by by one inhaling smells which are absorbed by

A

being covered in mucus, attracting the scent particles

90
Q

The _ cells create _ reahing each one sense cell

A

mitral cells,

glomeruli (one glomerulus)

91
Q

Smell is assessed in the temporal lobe as well as the

A

limbic system

92
Q

Mechanoreceptors are associatedw with touch, pressure, stretch, tension and vibration, and are found at the

A

joints and muscles

93
Q

The inner ear is associated with hearing and

A

balance and coordination

94
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Chemoreceptors are associated with smell and

A

changes in concentration of dissolved substances in the blood

95
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thermoreceptors are associated with temperature changes and

A

regulating surface and core temperatures

96
Q

Receptors associated with pain are called

A

nociceptors

97
Q

Movement in arms, legs, hands, feet, trunk are activated depending on the fineness of motor nmovements in the

A

motor neurons

98
Q

the _ nuclei provide similar function to motor neurons, but associataed with the head, nec,k, face and eyes

A

cranial nerve motor nuclei

99
Q

The ARAS is found in the

A

brainstem

100
Q

The ARAS causes activation/arousal of the _ when awake, but inhibition does so to the thalamus

A

cerebral cortex

101
Q

activation of the anterior hypothalamus causes _, whereas activation of the posterior hypothalamus causes _

A

sleepiness

wakefulness

102
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The ARAS is the

A

ascending reticular activating system that helps one stay awake or go to sleep