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Broca´s area
named after the French neurolinguist Paul Broca
1861
: report on a patient called "Tan"
great difficulties with producing speech
comprehension relatively spared
brain damage in the left frontal lobe
speech production is controlled mainly by anterior portions (Broca´s area)
Wernicke´s area
named after the German neuolinguist Carl Wernicke
1874
: report on two patients suffering from a different disorder
great difficulties with understanding speech
production of relatively fluent speech
brain damage in the left temporal lobe
speech comprehension is controlled mainly by posterior portions (Wernicke´s area)
Broca´s aphasia
damage to Broca´s area
having severe difficulties with speech production
speech is slow, deliberate, effortful
function words and grammatical endings are often missing
agrammatical or non-fluent aphasia
Wernicke´s aphasia
damage to Wernicke´s area
having severe difficulties with speech comprehension
speech is fluent, speed and intonation appear normal
frequent use of very detailed descriptions (circumlocutions) and newly created words (neologisms)
fluent aphasia
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used in language assessment and the diagnostics of neurological language disorders esp. of aphasia
Author
Nicole97
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338339
Card Set
intro linguistics neurolinguistics
Description
linguistic, neurolinguistics, language in the brain
Updated
2018-02-22T16:16:33Z
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