CSCD 3301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ct Scan, Electromagnetism, Positron

• School: Temple University
• Department: Communication Sciences and Disorders
• Course: CSCD 3301
• Professor: Lauren& Dana

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It is not considered a language until it is a rule governed system used by many people. Brain stem: regulates central nervous system, cardiac and xii. Pons: sleep cycle, swallowing, sensation, posture, balance xiii. Temporal lobe: critically important for language, memory, organization xv. Cerebellum: coordination and movement (also important for speech and language: brain development, brain lateralization: more recent research shows higher order functions occur in gray matter (superficial regions, hemispheric advantages are called functional asymmetry . Might have more activation in one hemisphere but both work together, same amount of connectivity and nerve fibers and: methods of neurolinguistic investigation: bundles on both sides. But not in isolation: hindbrain is biggest when baby is developing in utero the first. Processing pragmatic information (e. g. , jokes, sarcasm, figurative language, indirect requests) Production of short strings of content words (nouns and verbs) Trouble producing speech and speech that is produced lacks grammatical structure.