Language and the Brain

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Where is Broca's area?
Posterior section of inferior frontal gyrus
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Where is Wernicke's area?
Posterior section of superior temporal gyrus
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Where does Wernicke's area receive input from?
Sensory areas
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Where does Broca's area receive signals from?
Wernicke's area
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Where are auditory fields located bilaterally?
Superior temporal gyrus
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What is Wernicke's aphasia an impairment in?
Language comprehension
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What is Broca's aphasia an impairment in?
Language production
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What are phonemes?
Basic linguistic sound units which may have meaning
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What are graphemes?
Written out sound units
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What is lexicon?
Dictionary in the brain
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What is the lexical route?
Lexicon-sound mapping with irregular words
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What is the grapheme-phoneme conversion route?
Phonological recording with pseudo words
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What is surface dyslexia?
Impairment in the ability to read irregular words
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What is phonological dyslexia?
Impairment in the ability to read pronounceable pseudo words
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What is intact in both surface and phonological dyslexia?
Comprehension
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Deep dyslexia is similar to phonological dyslexia but has additional _________ reading problems
Semantic
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What is the most famous language-related ERP component?
N400
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What stimuli does N400 peak for?
Semantic-incongruent
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What does the brain integrate at the same time to access for comprehension?
Word meaning and world knowledge
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What stimuli does P600 peak for?
Syntactically incorrect
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