PSYC 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14.3: Transcortical Sensory Aphasia, Auditory Phonetics, Lateral Sulcus
9 Jun 2016
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It has been found that this feedback affects our perception of speech sounds by modifying the pull on subjects" skin as they listened to variations between two words: e. g. Intermediate sounds between head and had are more likely to be judged as head when the facial skin is stretched upwards, and had when it is stretched downwards. Monitoring one"s own speech plays an important role in the production of accurate and fluent speech. The posterior language area appears to serve as a place for interchanging information between the auditory representation of words and the meanings of these words, stored as memories in the rest of the sensory association cortex. Damage to this region alone, isolating wernicke"s area from the rest of the posterior language area, produced a disorder known as transcortical sensory aphasia. Thus, repetition does not involve the posterior language area, and there must be a direct connection between wernicke"s area and broca"s area that bypasses this region.
