PhyPsy Test_4 c14- Human Communication.txt

_________ may delay the onset of age-related dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.

Speech _____________ happens in all lobes of the brain, as it involves invoking experiences, memories, and perceptions.

Apahasia is a disturbance in the comprehension or production of ___________.

The right hemisphere is responsible for _________, or rythms and stresses of speech (tone of voice).

_________________ and Broca's Area are implicated in expressive writing deficits.

He was Broca's famous patient:

Someone with _____________ cannot read, but he can recognize words that are spelled out to him. "Word blindness"

Dyslexia is more common among people whose first language is ____________ than those whose first language is Italian.

A symtom of all aphasias-- the person cannot find the right word for something they want to say

Research by Hughes and colleagues shows that the human _______ may offer cues of a speaker's mates value.

Said to be the most important category of speech disorders:

Someone with _______________ hemisphere damage might not know better than to speak to her boss the same way she speaks to her friends.

Your ____________ cortex becomes activated if you read the alphabet.

Problems reading:

_____________ aphasia is a condition marked by slow, deliberate, non-fluent speech.

Researchers have found that people with dyslexia have above-average connectivity in the __________________

[this] Allowed for dissemination across time and space

Someone with ____________ aphasia has poor speech comprehension and produces meaningless speech.

Research suggests that those with dyslexia experience ________________ of the left temporal cortex and therefore, neural activation is spreading too weakly through the primary reading areas of the brain.

________________ dyslexia is caused by biological abnormalities.

Verbal behavior is ______________, which means the left hemisphere is doninant (in most people).

__________ areas are one method of referring to specific brain regions

A stroke-

True/false: A stroke is immediately evident
True False

True/false: most communication is verbal
True False

Broca's Area: ________ ; Wernicke's Area: _______

Speech is lateralized. The left hemisphere analyzes ______; The right hemisphere analyzes ______

This connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas:

a disturbance in the comprehension or production of speech.

involved in articulation:

language shapes thought:

In those with bilingualism, the brain shows...

social syntax for speech:

a treatment for stuttering

stuttering: men are 3X more likely; faulty auditory feedback means..

a neurological condition characterized by the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody.

2 types of dyslexia :

Reading and spelling issues that are disproportionate to other cognitive functions:

Rated ______ attractiveness = good accuracy in age, weight, symmetry, sexuality stuff

distrubance in writing ability:

learning ___________ may decrease dyslexia in primary english speakers

Gaab (2007): this results from issues in neural response in left prefrontal cortex & temporal cortex

__________ is responsible for expressive writing! therefore damage to this area = dysgraphia!

writing involves 2 major functions:

true/false: dyslexia does not diminish
True False

-something about left-handedness and hormone/ testosterone issues (more common in boys) [dyslexia?]

term for a gravitating favoritism towards one's similarities, such as letters of your name:

"A (woman|man) buys a car." this is an example of ....

difficulty using grammar

another term for Wernicke's aphasia

____________- recognition issues, cannot understand speech

issues with speech repitition.. not able to repeat something

Sx of all aphasia:

Prosody = ______ hemisphere

Broca's aphasia = ______ speech; Wernicke's aphasia = _____ speech

in language studies, the scanner of choice is the ____ scan