_________ may delay the onset of age-related dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
bilingualism
Speech _____________ happens in all lobes of the brain, as it involves invoking experiences, memories, and perceptions.
production
Apahasia is a disturbance in the comprehension or production of ___________.
speech!
The right hemisphere is responsible for _________, or rythms and stresses of speech (tone of voice).
prosody
_________________ and Broca's Area are implicated in expressive writing deficits.
Exners area
He was Broca's famous patient:
Tan
Someone with _____________ cannot read, but he can recognize words that are spelled out to him. "Word blindness"
Purealexia
Dyslexia is more common among people whose first language is ____________ than those whose first language is Italian.
English
A symtom of all aphasias-- the person cannot find the right word for something they want to say
anomia
Research by Hughes and colleagues shows that the human _______ may offer cues of a speaker's mates value.
voice
Said to be the most important category of speech disorders:
aphasia
Someone with _______________ hemisphere damage might not know better than to speak to her boss the same way she speaks to her friends.
Right
Your ____________ cortex becomes activated if you read the alphabet.
premotor
Problems reading:
dyslexia
_____________ aphasia is a condition marked by slow, deliberate, non-fluent speech.
Broca's
Researchers have found that people with dyslexia have above-average connectivity in the __________________
Corpus Callosum
[this] Allowed for dissemination across time and space
Printing Press
Someone with ____________ aphasia has poor speech comprehension and produces meaningless speech.
Wernicke's
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.
hypoactivation
________________ dyslexia is caused by biological abnormalities.
Developmental
Verbal behavior is ______________, which means the left hemisphere is doninant (in most people).
lateralized
__________ areas are one method of referring to specific brain regions
Brodman
A stroke-
CVA [CerebroVascular Accident]
True/false: A stroke is immediately evident
False; may take up to 24 hours
True/false: most communication is verbal
False; 80% is Non-verbal
Broca's Area: ________ ; Wernicke's Area: _______
Production; Comprehension
Speech is lateralized. The left hemisphere analyzes ______; The right hemisphere analyzes ______
sequences; space, geometric forms & Prosody (speech emphasis)
This connects Broca's and Wernicke's areas:
Arcuate Fisciculus
a disturbance in the comprehension or production of speech.
aphasia
involved in articulation:
insula
language shapes thought:
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
In those with bilingualism, the brain shows...
denser grey matter in Left hemisphere
social syntax for speech:
pragmatics
a treatment for stuttering
singing
stuttering: men are 3X more likely; faulty auditory feedback means..
lack of temporal lobe activity
a neurological condition characterized by the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody.