PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Temporal Lobe, Hearing Loss, Bergen Street Line
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B65 lecture #10: language organization within left hemisphere. Types of aphasias: receptive aphasias, problems with understanding/decoding lang, temporal. Integrative aphasias: problems with comprehension and formation, posterior temporal (wernicke"s, expressive aphasias, speaking, producing lang, frontal (motor cortex, area just ventral of motor strip for mouth broca"s area is the associational area. It"s a key: test prod/expressive, obey commands (ex. Point to door, point to window: tests comprehension bc it"s just pointing, don"t need to speak, ask them to read, write, ask them to repeat after you. Integrative aphasia: problems in selecting and arranging meaningful units and their eventual conversion into comprehensible coherent speech, wernicke"s aphasia = jargon aphasia, person just doesn"t make sense, meaningless, unintelligible. Isolation of speech area: cannot speak, comp, but mimic everything that is heard, usually result of long period of anoxia (lack of oxygen to brain, speech area cut off from rest of brain, extremely rare.
