PSYB65H3 Lecture 11: PSYB65 LECTURE 11
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3 basic ways can happen with language: input side of language receiving language/ language has to come in and be deciphered, integrated/ computation part, expressed output mechanism. Ask them questions: want to know whether patient can name the object. Find out what the patient can do, if they re stuttering, understand. See if they can follow commands point to ceiling. Give them something to read, see if they can write. Try to begin to understand what their capabilities and restrictions are: input side of language receiving language. Pure word deafness: problems in relating incoming sounds into representations which allow the understanding of discourse. Problem with making language sense out of sounds. Can hear the sounds but cannot distinguish language/ doesn t make sense (like foreign language) Sounds come into the ear to the temporal lobe where language is decoded. Usually involves some of stroke to (dorsal portion) temporal area near primary receptive area for audition.
