LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phonological Dyslexia, Neurolinguistics, Dysgraphia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Yourie Pankrats

Document Summary

Neurolinguistics (neuro means brain, linguist of the brain) is a branch of neuroscience that has as its goal the understanding of how language is represented and processed in the brain (tb, p. 424). How language is represented in the brain, how it function, how it can trigger some language function, stimulate language. The importance of the studies of individuals with injured brains and strokes for neurolinguistics. Most research in the area of language breakdown focuses on brain damage because of head injury (accidents) and strokes. Stroke damage tends to be more localized than damage from head injury but both can have an impact on individual"s ability to use language. Stroke in left hemisphere, speed and language is different, first week no language at all. Aphasia is a broad term encompassing numerous syndromes of communicative impairment usually the loss of language ability as a result of some damage to the brain.