Psychology 2080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Creole Language, Anomic Aphasia, Agraphia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2080A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

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Damage to the frontal lobe afects speech producion, but they seem to understand what is being said. Fluent speech but they don"t seem to understand (severe comprehension diiculies) If there is damage to the let hemisphere, there can be other language problems as well. Echolalia: can repeat anything but show no sign of understanding: produce no speech of their own (just mimicking) Some people can use concrete nouns but not abstract nouns eg. they know dog, table, or pencil, but not ime, quality, or nutriion. Some can name animate objects but not inanimate objects. Suggests that speciic parts of the brain are responsible for very speciic language abiliies. It seems unlikely that there would be one paricular spot in the brain responsible for naming colours, but maybe there is something to that. Alexia: problems with reading (someimes without a disrupion in spoken language abiliies)