Cognitive Neuropsychology (All solved questions)

Language resides within what areas of the brain? correct answers frontal and temporal lobes a clinical condition in which there is a breakdown in language function after brain insult correct answers aphasia What region is responsible for speech output? correct answers anterior regions of the left hemisphere What type of aphasia experiences telegraphic speech? correct answers Broca's aphasia What region is responsible for speech comprehension? correct answers posterior regions of the left hemisphere What type of aphasia is often referred to as fluent aphasics? correct answers Wernicke's aphasia What are paraphasia? correct answers ... Neologisms? correct answers ... The rules by which sounds are formed and combined in language correct answers phonology The rules of grammar that dictate ways in which words can be combined to form sentences correct answers syntax The aspect of language that specifies the meaning of words correct answers semantics What test has confirmed evidence of a larger role in language for the left hemisphere? correct answers wada test What test has identified specific frontal and temporal regions that support language processing? correct answers cortical stimulation loss of reading ability due to brain insult correct answers alexia two types of alexia correct answers phonological and surface surface alexia correct answers inability to map orthography or spelling of words onto meaning/semantics patients unable to read irregular words like pint, have the do not follow grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence correct answers surface alexia inability to map orthography onto phonology via grapheme-to-phoneme correspondence rules correct answers phonological alexia