Brain & Aphasia
What is Broca’s area?
This brain region in the frontal lobe controls speech production.
What is a phoneme?
The smallest unit of sound that changes meaning in language.
What is lexical access?
This process allows us to quickly retrieve word meanings from memory.
What is Wernicke’s area?
This brain region in the frontal lobe controls speech production.
What is a morpheme?
The smallest unit of meaning in a word.
What is working memory?
This memory system temporarily stores information while reading or listening.
What is Broca’s aphasia?
This disorder causes slow, effortful speech but relatively good understanding.
What is semantics?
This refers to the meaning of words and sentences.
What is lexical ambiguity?
This occurs when a word has multiple meanings
What is Wernicke’s aphasia?
This disorder produces fluent speech that often lacks meaning or contains made-up words.
What is syntax?
This refers to the grammatical structure of sentences.
What is syntactic ambiguity?
This occurs when a sentence can be interpreted in multiple ways due to structure.
What is aphasia?
This condition refers to language impairment caused by brain damage.
What is pragmatics?
This focuses on how context and tone influence meaning.
What is parallel distributed processing (PDP)?
This concept explains how both hemispheres and multiple brain areas work together for language.