SPHR 2130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Angular Gyrus, Dyslexia, Analytic Reasoning

• School: GWU
• Department: Speech and Hearing Science
• Course: SPHR 2130
• Professor: Schulz

Document Summary

Sphr 2135 lecture 12: language storage and processing. What people know about language and how they use that knowledge to produce and understand it. Knowledge of where language centers of the brain are and how we perceive and produce language. Wer(cid:374)i(cid:272)ke"s area: lexicon(mental dictionary); interprets lexical entry activated when accessing the. Hearing a spoken word: phonetic i(cid:374)fo se(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) wer(cid:374)i(cid:272)ke"s area to bro(cid:272)a"s area interprets info received from a. f. transmits artic info to motor cortex directs movement of muscles for. Wer(cid:374)i(cid:272)ke"s area: matches info to a lexical entry. Processes info perceived by the ears interprets auditory stimulus & Lateralization: activated during lexical access; pronunciation of word. Right side of body controlled by left hemisphere. Left side of body controlled by right hemisphere. Expressive / production disorder use function words); steriotypies (islands of very fluent things they can say) Non-fluent; agrammatical (without grammatical speech, use content words but hardly. Fluent but empty; jargon (jumble up things, misnaming); circumlocutions (circling);