Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Global Aphasia, Communication Disorder, Receptive Aphasia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Crystallized intelligence (use knowledge and experience) (using reading comprehension to test) Language and the brain: aphasia and split-brain patients. 90% of people, language is in left hemisphere (both right and left handed people!). Whatever is dominant, 2 main areas are broca"s area (speak/language expression, frontal lobe) and. Aphasia is a communication disorder that causes problems with language, like speaking, listening reading, and writing: when broca"s is damaged, people have trouble producing speech. Damage to the language production centers of the brain. Wernicke"s aphasia is characterized by difficulty understanding spoken words and sentences, as well as difficulty producing sentences that make sense. Persons with wernicke"s aphasia can produce many words and they often speak using grammatically correct sentences with normal rate and prosody. However, often what they say doesn"t make a lot of sense or they pepper their sentences with non- existent or irrelevant words.