PS267 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: University Of Manchester, Conduction Aphasia, Apraxia
Document Summary
Chapter 11 language part 1: the anatomy of language, brain damage and language deficits, the fundamentals of language in the brain, language comprehension, neural models of language comprehension, neural models of speech production, evolution of language. Can share ideas about things outside of our immediate sensory world. Huge survival advantage: the classical model" of language says that specific regions in the brain perform specific tasks. Wernicke"s area understands speech: language is primarily located in the left hemisphere. A network around the sylvian fissure (separates frontal from temporal lobe) Left perisylvian language network: temporal lobe, wernicke"s area, parietal lobe, supramarginal gyrus, angular gyrus, frontal lobe, broca"s area. In right hem analyzes differences in tone in these areas. Brain damage and language deficits: aphasia = a broad term signifying the collective deficits in language comprehension and production as a result of brain damage. ~40% of all strokes result in some form of aphasia. Damage to pars triangularis & pars opercularis.
