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6. What does the double dissassociation between sentence planning and articulatory processing suggest?

  • They are distinct processes mediated by adjacent brain areas in the left inferior frontal region and are often damaged together
  • They are distinct processes mediated by adjacent brain areas in the left anterior frontal region and are often damaged together
  • They are not distinct processes mediated by the same brain areas in the left inferior frontal region and are often damaged together
  • They are not distinct processes mediated by the same brain areas in the left anterior frontal region and are often damaged together

7. Which of these symptoms did patient TAN NOT suffer from?

  • Impaired understanding of writen and spoken words
  • Problems initiating speech
  • Problems creating complex sentences
  • Syntactic grammar problems

8. What is a comorbid symptom of agrammatism?

  • Issues in understanding complex sentences (suggesting shared processes between production and comprehension)
  • Issues in producing complex sentences (suggesting shared processes between production and comprehension)
  • Issues in understanding complex sentences (suggesting no shared processes between production and comprehension)
  • Issues in producing complex sentences (suggesting no shared processes between production and comprehension)

9. Although not a discrete split, in the left/right brain dichotomy what is the left brain responsible for?

  • For subtle aspects of language such as metaphors, aswell as sensory input from the left and left-sided movement. Also responsible for visuo-spatial attention.
  • Most aspects of language processing, aswell as sensory input from the right and right-sided movement.
  • Most aspects of language processing, aswell as sensory input from the left and left-sided movement.
  • For subtle aspects of language such as metaphors, aswell as sensory input from the right and right-sided movement. Also responsible for visuo-spatial attention.

10. Which area is primarily responsible for processing the structure of sentences, damage to it would result in agrammatism?

  • Anterior temporal lobe
  • Auditory cortex
  • Brocas area (left inferior frontal gyrus)
  • Brocas area (right inferior frontal gyrus)

11. What characterises brocas aphasia?

  • Speech is difficult to initiate, faulty articulation. Meaning dependent on syntax is impaired, may only be able to produce a single word.
  • Speech is difficult to initiate, faulty articulation. Semantic meaning access is impaired, multimodal comprehension is normal
  • Speech is difficult to initiate, faulty articulation. Semantic meaning access is impaired, may only be able to produce a single word.
  • Speech is difficult to initiate, faulty articulation. Meaning dependent on syntax is impaired, Multimodal comprehension is also impaired.

12. What is a symptom of deep dysphasia?

  • Inability to repeat unfamiliar words
  • Inability to repeat familiar words and non-words
  • Inability to repeat unfamiliar words and non-words
  • Inability to repeat familiar words

13. Which of these specific structures do agrammatic patients NOT struggle with?

  • Verbs
  • Inflectional endings
  • Word order and sentence structure
  • Function words

14. What are aphasias?

  • Disorders of speaking and listening caused by stroke, tumour, brain injury.
  • Progressive, degenerative diseases causing a loss of motor control (and subsequently language) over time
  • Progressive, degenerative diseases causing a loss of language over time
  • Disorders of language acquired genetically and arising in later stages of development

15. To understand spoken words, which areas lie on the ventral route?

  • Auditory cortex to the anterior temporal lobe
  • Inferior temporal lobe to the auditory cortex
  • Auditory cortex to the inferior temporal lobe
  • Anterior temporal lobe to the auditory cortex

16. What is agrammatism?

  • An inability in converting sentences into thoughts, particularly the ability to construct around the noun
  • An inability in converting thoughts into sentences, particularly the ability to construct around the verb
  • An inability in converting sentences into thoughts, particularly the ability to construct around the verb
  • An inability in converting thoughts into sentences, particularly the ability to construct around the noun

17. Which of these skills is the left hemisphere NOT specialised for?

  • Adapting to differences between speakers
  • Extracting speech sounds (phonemes) from speech
  • Phoneme awareness
  • Distinguishing phonemes that require fine perceptual analysis

18. What is dementia?

  • Disorder of speaking and listening caused by stroke, tumour, brain injury.
  • Progressive, degenerative disease which can affect speech and language over time
  • Disorder of language acquired genetically and arising in later stages of development
  • Caused by a lack of cognitive reserve, dementia is a progressive degenerative brain disorder that only affects general executive functioning