Language & Laterallity

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A patient was diagnosed with Broca s aphasia. What is most likely to describe the symptoms exhibited
They exhibit slow, laboured language without grammatical structure, and difficulty in finding the right word, but are often aware that they have a deficit
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A split brain patient was presented briefly with pictures of two fruit on a screen, one in the left visual field, one in the right visual field. They were then asked to pick out which fruit was in the picture, from a selection of fruit hidden behind a scr
An apple
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Wernick's aphasia is due to damage of the..
left posterior, superior temporal gyrus
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What are the symptoms of WA
- Neologisms (languages made up of words that don’t exist)
- Paraphasia (inappropriate words)
- Speech has no meaning
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Give one limitation of the Wernicke-Geschwind model
Oversimplified as language is more widespread and less defined
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Which functional aspects are asymmetric
People are either left or right-handed
Eye dominance
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What is Representational neglect
Damage to R partial lobe - ppl become unaware of the left side of their body/visual field & affects memory. Sufferers are normally unaware they have this problem
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A split brain patient was presented briefly with pictures of two fruit on a screen, one in the left visual field, one in the right visual field. They were then asked to pick out which fruit was in the picture, from a selection of fruit hidden behind a scr

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Wernick's aphasia is due to damage of the..

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What are the symptoms of WA

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Give one limitation of the Wernicke-Geschwind model

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