Areas of Brain
The only area of the brain responsible for speech production
Broca's area
A type of condition in which speech is very slow because of damage to the frontal lobe
Broca’s aphasia
Define phoneme
A smallest unit of sound that can change meaning in a language
What is EEG?
This brain imaging technique measures electrical activity using electrodes on the scalp.
Describe Wernicke's area
You understand language comprehension and meaning in this area of the brain
When an individual has difficulty repeating words or phrases despite intact comprehension
conduction aphasia
The mental dictionary that stores word meanings and associations is?
Lexicon
The abbreviation FMRI stands for?
functional magnetic resonance imaging
What will happen if you were to damage the arcuate fasciculus?
A disruption communication between Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
Another type of disorder that involves fluent but nonsensical speech and poor comprehension
What is syntactic processing?
A process where you are analyzing sentence structure and grammar.
What is the lesion method?
A method studying language deficits by examining patients with brain damage.
What's the left hemisphere?
This hemisphere is dominant for language in most right-handed individuals
T/F: Aphasia is a disorder caused by brain damage, not developmental issues, affecting speaking, understanding, reading, or writing
True
Define semantic processing.
The stage of language processing where meaning is interpreted based on context and knowledge.
T/F:This theory suggests that function ability is innate and supported by a specialized brain system.
False: language ability is innate and supported by a specialized brain system, not function.