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Language Loss. Language and Psychology. Neurolinguistic aspect of language loss. The anatomy of brain. Frontal lobe Speech Occipital lobe Vision Cerebellum Movement Parietal lobe Touch Pons Breathing and heartbeat Temporal lobe Hearing Cerebrum memory.
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Language Loss Language and Psychology
The anatomy of brain • Frontal lobe • Speech • Occipital lobe • Vision • Cerebellum • Movement • Parietal lobe • Touch • Pons • Breathing and heartbeat • Temporal lobe • Hearing • Cerebrum • memory
Human brains vs. animal brains • The human brain is not equipotential (i.e. equally distributed). • Different areas of human brain control different language functions.
aphasia • The loss of speech due to brain damage
Broca’s aphasia (Expressive aphasia) • Symptoms • Unable to express themselves by more than a single word at a time • Content words are ok; function words are not • “Yes... ah... Monday... er... Dad and Peter H... and Dad.... er... hospital... and ah... Wednesday... Wednesday, nine o'clock... and oh... Thursday... ten o'clock, ah doctors... two... an' doctors... and er... teeth... yah’” • Damaged area • The front regions of the left hemisphere
Wernike’s aphasia • Symptoms • Fluent speech with no informational value • Comprehension is impaired. • “I called my mother on the television and did not understand the door. It was too breakfast, but they came from far to near. My mother is not too old for me to be young.” • Damaged area • Temporal lobe of the left hemisphere
Broca’s aphasia Prevents a person from producing speech Person can understand language Words are not properly formed Speech is slow and slurred. Wernicke’s aphasia Loss of the ability to understand language Person can speak clearly but the words that are put together make no sense. Broca vs. Wernicke
Split brain experiments • The two hemispheres of the brain is connected by corpus callosum. • The function of corpus callosum • To commute the info between the two sides of the brain.
What would happen if corpus callosum is cut? • Play the split brain experiments game at http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/split-brain/index.html
hemispherectomy • The surgical operation to cut half of your brain!
Neuroplaticity • The adults hardly recover from speech loss after hemispherectomy. • The children have good possibilities to regain their full speech ability.