Psychology 2011A/B Lecture Notes - Deep Structure And Surface Structure, Hearing Loss, Aphasia
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1 Feb 2013
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Broca’s Aphasia Wernicke’s Aphasia
•Damage to Left Frontal Lobe
•Not Fluent Speech
•Rarely use function words & don’t
use tenses such as –ed
•Understand everything said to
them
•Have difficulty articulating words
•Damage to upper left temporal lobe
•Fluent Speech
•Person uses function words & employs complex
verb tenses & subordinate clauses; lack of content
words(verbs n’ shit)
•Recognizes spoken words but cannot convert
thoughts into words
•Cannot comprehend the meaning of words
(recognition does not equal comprehension)
•When it gets extreme people start to mumble
Aggrammatism Pure Word Deafness
•Damage only to Broca’s AREA
•Loss of ability to
produce/comprehend complex
syntactical rules
oCannot understand
complicated sentences
•Damage only to Wernicke’s AREA
•Inability to understand speech that is heard but can
still read lips and writing
•Can still speak properly, hear and write
•Can recognize emotions conveyed through pitch
and rhythm but not the actual words
oCan understand through vocal expressions
Autopagnosia Isolation Aphasia
oDamage to part of association
cortex of left parietal lobe
oInability to name Body Parts
oDamage to left temporal & parietal cortex
(area around Wernicke’s Area but not Wernicke’s
area itself)
oDamage to area that surrounds Wernicke’s Area
which is the posterior language area which is
responsible for word meanings
oSimilar to Wernicke’s Aphasia but can recognize &
repeat words
Conduction Aphasia
oDifficulty repeating words and
phrases, but they are
comprehended
oRetain deep structure but not
surface structure