PS366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Hearing Loss, Basal Ganglia, Parsing
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Localizing language areas of brain studies of brain damage caused by brain damage. Most evidence for specific language areas in the brain comes from. Aphasia: any impairment in language production or comprehension cortex. meaningless. substitutions. incomprehensible. Damage to frontal regions of left hemisphere. Severe loss of ability to express grammatical relationships in speech and writing: omit articles, conjunctions, grammatical inflections, effort to produce speech, short one-word utterances. You damage it, it leads to issues with producing speech. People who damage this area have a lot of difficulty producing speech and produce speech that is achromatic, you lose syntactic ability. If damaged, you wont send the correct signals to produce. Damage to the rear of the left temporal lobe, adjacent to the auditory. Speech production is fluent (syntax is preserved), but usually. Speech marked by invented words or semantically inappropriate. Comprehension is severely impaired, lack of awareness that speech is.
