PSYCH261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Frontal Lobe, Dysgraphia, Fusiform Gyrus
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Until 1970s everything only involved with people with neruo damages. Name, repeat, fluency (trickiest)(relates to the cadence rise and falls), comprehension, grammar, reading/writing, gesture, inflection. Brocas area (speech production), wernickes area (word recognition), posterior language area (interface between wernickes area and perceptions and memories) Wernickes area and brocas area enables patients with transcortical sensory aphasia to repeat words that they cannot understand. Wernickes aphasia is caused by damage to both regions; patient can neither understancd the meaning of words nor repeat them. Transcortical sensory aphasia is caused by damage to the posterior language area; patient cannot understand the meanings of words but can repeat them. Anterior: (expression motor), posterior (comprehension sensory), connections, ideations, textbook pictures can be too pretty. The study of aphasia used to be the study of strokes. Diffusion tensor imaging white matter tracts, orientation of nerve cells are basically in one general direction. Prosody is on the right, can also involve the emotion you put on speech.
