PSYC 362 Chapter 13: Textbook Notes - Chapter 13

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 362
• Professor: Maria Romero

Document Summary

Aphasia: difficulty in producing or comprehending speech not produced by deafness or a simple motor deficit; caused by brain damage. Verbal behavior is a lateralized function most language disturbances occur after damage to the left side of the brain, whether people are left-handed or right0handed. Right hemisphere= critical in reading maps, perceive spatial relationships, recognizing complex geometrical forms. Also controls emotion in the tone of voice and organizes a narrative selecting and assembling the elements of what we want to say. The cerebral hemispheres (the occipital, temporal, and parietal lobes) are largely responsible for out having something to say. The conversion of perceptions, memories, and thoughts into speech males use of neural mechanisms located in the frontal lobes. Broca"s aphasia: a form of aphasia characterized by agrammatism, anomia, and extreme difficulty in speech articulation. Damage to the inferior left frontal lobe (broca"s area) disrupts the ability to speak: agrammatism: refers to a patient"s difficulty in using grammatical constructions.