Brain and Language/General Considerations
The discipline that examines the underlying neurological structures and systems that support language and language-related processes is known as
What is Neurolinguistics?
What is aphasia?
Omitting the use of -ing or grammatical function words is an example of
What is Broca's aphasia?
Language has greater activation in which hemisphere of the brain
What is the left hemisphere?
The region of the brain that is responsible for face recognition and is often referred to as
What is inferotemporal cortex or fusiform face area?
Name two areas if damaged impacts language related processing
What is Broca's Area and Wernicke's Area?
This area is used in the processing of music and gestures that are associated with speech.
What is Broca's area?
The left hemisphere of the brain is especially active during
What is speech perception?
Successful comprehension and production of language involves multiple cognitive processes such as
What is attention, working memory, long-term memory, motor systems and perception?
Leads to hesitant speech that uses isolated words and short phrases and the location of that area
What is Broca's area and the front left hemisphere of brain (left inferior frontal gyrus)?
Name the types of experiments used to see the activation of the Broca's area many language tasks
What is functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)?
What is the mirror system?
Brief fluctuations in the brain's electrical activity elicited by the presentation of a linguistic stimulus
What is event-related potential (ERP) technique?
Primarily characterized by an expressive-language deficit or trouble producing language.
What is Broca's aphasia?
Name the researches that discovered that specific areas of left frontal lobe responded only to language tasks
Who is Fedorenko, Behr, and Kanwisher?
This is considered to be especially active when trying to listen to someone talking in a noisy setting
What is mirror neurons?
Research in the relationship between neural systems and cognitive processes depended on
What is the effects of brain damage?
Often has such severe problems with language comprehension that they cannot understand basic instruction and produces serious difficulties understanding language
What is Wernicke's aphasia and Wernicke's area?