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Michael Arbib: CS564 - Brain Theory and Artificial Intelligence. Lecture 2. Charting the Brain 1 Reading Assignment: TMB2: Section 2.4. A View of the Human Brain. A View of the Monkey Brain. Dorsal Spinal Cord Ventral. Flexor and Extensor Muscles.
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Michael Arbib: CS564 - Brain Theory and Artificial Intelligence • Lecture 2. Charting the Brain 1 • Reading Assignment: • TMB2: Section 2.4.
How Motoneuron Firing Shortens Muscles Henneman’s Size Principle: See HBTNN: Motoneuron recruitment
Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasias • Paul Broca (1865):Broca's aphasia is characterized by nonfluent speech, few words, short sentences, and many pauses. The words that the patient can produce come with great effort and often sound distorted. The melodic intonation is flat and monopitched. This gives the speech the general appearance of a telegraphic nature, because of the deletion of functor words and disturbances in word order. However, aural comprehension for conversational speech is relatively intact. There is often an accompanying right hemiparesis involving the face, arm, and leg. • Carl Wernicke (1874):Wernicke’s aphasia is known as a fluent aphasia because the patient does not appear to have any difficulty articulating speech, but may be paraphasic. However, comprehension of speech is impaired and sometimes even single words are not comprehended. The patient may even speak in a meaningless “neoligistic” jargon, devoid of any content but with free use of verb tenses, clauses, and subordinates.
Dorsal Language Cortex VentralWarning: Localization of Aphasias is HIGHLY Variable Wernicke’s original drawing (wrong hemisphere!) a = Wernicke b = Broca MRI-scans from Keith A. Johnson, M.D. and J. Alex Becker The Whole Brain Atlashttp://www.med.harvard.edu./AANLIB/home.html Slice viewed from below: So “right” is left Wernicke’s Area Broca’s Area(Negative Image)
Reading, No - Writing, Yes!Alexia without Agraphia Dejerine, 1892
Varieties of Vertebrate Brains Catfish Snake Alligator Frog Primitive Mammal Goose Horse