Brain Anatomy
A different word for the grey matter of the brain.
What is the cortex?
What is the left hemisphere?
The most common cause of aphasia.
What is a stroke?
Linguistics studies the relation between ___ and ___.
What is FORM and MEANING?
The convex (outward curving) wrinkles of cortex.
What are gyri?
The term used to describe something on both sides of the brain.
What is bilateral?
A type of aphasia characterized by overall comprehension impairment and fluent but disordered speech.
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
The branch of linguistics studying the internal structure of words.
What is morphology?
The approximate number of neurons in the brain.
What is 86 billion neurons?
The other term used to describe something dorsal.
What is superior?
The method in patient/aphasic studies used to relate the inability to do X behavior with the corresponding brain site.
What is the deficit-lesion method?
The lobe that is primarily concerned with vision.
What is the occipital lobe?
The point of contact between a dendrite and an axon.
What is a synapse?
The fissure that separates the frontal lobe from the temporal lobe.
What is the Sylvian (or lateral) fissure?
The type of aphasia caused by disruption to the arcuate fasciculus.
What is conduction aphasia?
The study of the abstract categories of speech sounds.
What is phonology?
The bundle of fibres connecting the left and right hemispheres.
What is the corpus callosum?
The lobe that is ventral to the frontal AND the parietal lobe.
What is the temporal lobe?
The single syllable reportedly uttered by Paul Broca's first aphasic patient.
The Brodmann areas traditionally called Broca's area.
What are BA 44 and 45?