LING 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carl Wernicke, Aphasiology, Aphasia
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Carl wernicke observed language deficits that didn"t involve broca"s area. Deficit associated with damage to an area in the temporal lobe (near the back of the head) Speech is fluent, but doesn"t make sense. It"s not clear if the person understands the question and the answer is almost incomprehensible even though they"re grammatical. Is on cookie jar is own the boy is the other the on the boys is on cookie. The girl is on the floor is to the our boy . Many words, but they make little sense. We can see that for both aphasias, the patient"s brains have linguistic deficits correlated with damage to specific areas of the brain (not just in a simple box called the brain) Language function isn"t housed in a simple box in the brain. Discrete areas control different aspects of language. Takes a series of images of the brain over time (one image every 3 sec)
