PSYC10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Apraxia, Living Brain, Clinical Neuropsychology
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Clinical neuropsychology: attempts to explain normal brain-behaviour relationships by assessing how the system breaks down after damage: endeavours to isolate functional modules based on patterns of dissociation and association. "we may encounter a tv that no longer displays a picture, but in which the sound remains normal, and another tv that has the reverse problem a normal picture but no sound. Without needing to open up the sets to examine their electrical components, we can deduce that picture and sound must be controlled by separate processes, because either function can be damaged in isolation, leaving the other intact. " Wernicke"s aphasia - disorder of language comprehension: wernicke"s area: responsible for the comprehension of speech. Wernicke"s aphasia results in: fluent, nonsensical speech. However, broca"s area and wernicke"s aphasia need to be intact (with the connections between them) for normal language to be allowed.
