Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Receptive Aphasia, Paul Broca, Cerebral Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Neuron a and neuron b synapse with neuron c. you are measuring the electrical activity in. This is where we process things and make sense of the world. Neural disorders within association area reaches primary projection area, sent to association area, and encounters problem at that point. Ex) cannot put actions together to pass coffee cup if asked can you pass me the coffee cup? . Ex) turn to your left, grasp cup etc. Inability to determine what face they are looking at. Can see face, report blurriness, report background image. But cannot tell who the person is regardless of who it is. It is responsible for facial recognition within humans and higher order animals. Difficulty in stringing words together into a sentence. Pass coffee cup me when asking for a coffee cup. Difficulty in understanding language in its written or spoken form. Can speak using grammar, syntax, rate, and intonation.