LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cerebral Cortex, Agrammatism, Ct Scan
11 Apr 2016
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Neurolinguistics is a branch of neuroscience that has as its goal the understanding of how language is represented and processed in the brain (tb, p. 418) . The importance of the studies of individuals with injured brains and strokes for neurolinguistics. Most research in the area of language breakdown focuses on brain damage because of head injury (accidents) and strokes. Stroke damage tends to be more localized than damage from head injury but both can have an impact on individual"s ability to use language. Aphasia is a broad term encompassing numerous syndromes of communicative impairment usually the loss of language ability as a result of some damage to the brain. The impairment of reading ability is called acquired dyslexia (or acquired alexia). The impairment of writing ability is called acquired dysgraphia (or acquired agraphia). Phonological acquired dyslexia happens when the patient seems to have lost ability to use spelling-to-sound rules.
