COGS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe
30 Oct 2017
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The linguistic approach says that "language is an evolved capacity" Environment plays an important role in language acquisition. Aphasia is a disorder caused by damage to the parts of the brain that control language. Aphasia patients who have damage to broca"s area on the lower left frontal lobe. In wernicke"s aphasia patients have damage to wernicke"s area on the posterior portion of the left hemisphere. Have problems comprehending speech and there fore generates irrelevant replies. Produce rapid, fluent and seemingly automatic speech with very little meaning. Wernicke (1960) first formulated a model of how we process language in our brain which was later explained by geschwind (1972) The model gives an oversimplified explanation of the cognitive process behind language processing by the neural system. Criticism: other brain areas are also involved in language processing such as. Criticism: other brain areas are also involved in language processing such as memory.
