LIN 2358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Perseveration, Echolalia, Conduction Aphasia
27 Jan 2017
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2 major language areas (broca and wernicke) Motor cortex (anterior) vs. sensory cortex (posterior: language processing. Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic information is analyzed by the right hemisphere. An acquired language deficit generally caused by a cva. Problems with expression oral and written (writing) Difficulty with comprehension auditory and visual (reading: brain and language. In right-handed people, language is generally located in the left hemisphere, as in most left-handed people. In the brain, specific areas (within different lobes frontal and temporal) are specialized in language: brain and language. Aphasia results from a lesion to one of those areas. All tasks that involve language become more difficult for a person with aphasia. A person with aphasia does not loose his/her memory. A paralysis of the right side of the body (face, hand, leg) This hemiplegia can be complete or partial. Hemianopsia (a lack of vision on the right/weak side of the body)
