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PSY210H1 Lecture Notes - Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Temporal Lobe, Aphasia

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fuchsiasheep601
7 Jun 2012
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UTSG
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Psychology
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PSY210H1
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Broca"s aphasia: damage to left frontal lobe, not fluent speech, rarely use function words & don"t use tenses such as ed, understand everything said to them, have difficulty articulating words. Wernicke"s aphasia: damage to upper left temporal lobe, person uses function words & employs complex verb. Loss of ability to produce/comprehend complex syntactical rules: cannot understand complicated sentences. Pure word deafness: damage only to wernicke"s area. Autopagnosia: damage to part of association cortex of left parietal lobe, inability to name body parts.

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