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PSYC 3290 Psycholinguistics When the hardware/software fails… (Language Disorders)

PSYC 3290 Psycholinguistics When the hardware/software fails… (Language Disorders). March 24, 2008. Today’s outline. Research paper Course evaluation Altmann Chapters 12 & 14 Aphasia Dyslexia. Research paper. This week: bringing together all the pieces from your long outline.

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PSYC 3290 Psycholinguistics When the hardware/software fails… (Language Disorders)

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  1. PSYC 3290PsycholinguisticsWhen the hardware/software fails…(Language Disorders) March 24, 2008

  2. Today’s outline • Research paper • Course evaluation • Altmann Chapters 12 & 14 • Aphasia • Dyslexia

  3. Research paper • This week: bringing together all the pieces from your long outline. • Review paper should have a thesis statement too! • Add in comments and your thoughts about the findings. Have you noticed something wrong with the methodology or argument? Be critical (constructively). • Focus on your thesis and talk about it, not around it and branch off too far…

  4. Causes of Brain Damage • Head injury • Stroke • Hemorrhagic stroke - Ischemic stroke http://www.massgeneral.org/vascularcenter/page.asp?id=stroke

  5. Left vs. Right Hemisphere • Damage to the LH generally impairs language • Damage to the RH does not necessarily impair language. Patients may show emotional deficit instead. • But recall Hickok & Poppel’s (2007) proposal on the dual-route to language processing  Language may not be processed in one hemisphere!

  6. Symptoms ≠ Diagnosis • Symptom is not a direct reflection of distinct disorder • Failure to produce the word “tiger” could be because: • Failure to recognize the animal (conceptual) • Failure to utter the word (motoric) • Classify symptoms according to components of language

  7. Spoken vs. Written deficits • Aphasia: deficits in spoken language • Dyslexia: deficits in written language  Could affect both reception and expression • Often act as co-morbidity • Both forms are syndromes, i.e., they compose of distinct symptoms that can be formed into subtypes

  8. Sound Symbol Meaning Meaning Failure to understand • Pure word deafness (spoken language) Auditory perception intact Failure to connect sound to meaning • Pure word blindness (written language) Visual perception intact Failure to connect symbol to meaning

  9. Aphasia: The Brain (Revisit) http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_10/i_10_cr/i_10_cr_lan/i_10_cr_lan.html

  10. Types of Aphasia (Lichtheim, 1885) • Broca’s aphasia • Wernicke’s aphasia • Transcortical motor aphasia • Transcortical sensory aphasia • Conduction aphasia • Global aphasia • Isolation of the language zone http://www.medscape.com/content/2000/00/41/08/410865/art-sin2004.01.saff.fig2.gif

  11. Characteristics of Subtypes

  12. Dyslexia • First described in British Medical Journal by Pringle-Morgan in 1896 • Current definition from National Child Health and Human Development: • Language-based learning disability • Insufficient phonological processing at word-decoding level • Not related to general developmental disabilities or sensory impairment • Show problems in spelling and writing

  13. Types of Dyslexia • Types  Deep: problems with function words, but not nouns  Phonological: fail GPC  Surface: can’t say irregular words • Etiology  Acquired: Originated in the brain  Developmental: Originated in childhood (brain + genetics??)

  14. Symptoms in reading • Use small sight vocabulary • Made visual errors • Read saucer as supper • Read thirsty as twenty • Fail to sound out letter sounds  fail to recognize the grapheme-phoneme-correspondence (GPC) • Successful reading relies on context, substituting semantically acceptable words

  15. Symptoms in Spelling

  16. How do they read? • Through wholistic visual approach • Caik  Cake • Klown  Clown • But cannot read kaik or kloun • Semantic priming: • Tomato  sawce • Cough  snease • Build up visual memory of words along with semantic context

  17. Etiology: Genetics • Orton (1925) first proposed language problems run in families • 1950’s Halgen found 88% of 300 learning disabled children had similar problems in the families • Recently, heritability of dyslexia is found to be around 50% (Colorado twin studies) • Short arm in chromosome 6 and 15

  18. Etiology: Neurological basis • Planum temporale • Left fusiform gyrus • Temporo-parietal junction • Magnocellular pathway for early visual system Temple, E. (2002). Brain mechanism in normal and dyslexic readers. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 178-183.

  19. Close to the Wernicke’s area Believed to be involved in pitch processing Normal readers have a bigger left PT Dyslexic Ss have symmetrical left and right PT Planum Temporale http://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/i/i_10/i_10_cr/i_10_cr_lan/i_10_cr_lan.html#3

  20. Dyslexia as a syndrome caused by deficits in a neurological network Temporo-ParietalJunction

  21. What is language?

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