PSYA02H3 Midterm: Midterm-different aphasias.doc

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Jordens

Document Summary

Broca"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. Wernicke"s aphasia: damage to upper left temporal lobe, person uses function words & employs complex verb. Loss of ability to produce/comprehend complex syntactical rules: cannot understand complicated sentences. Pure word deafness: damage only to wernicke"s area. Autopagnosia: damage to part of association cortex of left parietal lobe, inability to name body parts.