PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Frontal Lobe, Language Disorder, Fast Mapping

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Language is one of the most intensively studied area in all of psychology. Language: a form of communication that involves the use of spoken, written, or gestural symbols that are combined in a rule-based form. Aphasia: a language disorder caused by damage to the brain structures that support using and understanding language. Broca"s area: region of the left frontal lobe that controls our ability to articulate speech sounds that compose words. The symptoms associated with this damage are known as broca"s aphasia. The ability to use language involves a number of different processes using different areas of the brain. Wernicke"s area: the area of the brain most associated with funding the meaning of words. : damages to this area results in wernicke"s aphasia (language disorder in which a person has difficulty understanding the words he/she hears and speaking that other people can understand) Phonemes: the most basic units of speech sounds. Morphemes: the smallest meaningful units of a language.