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Language and the brain. Insights from Neurolinguistics. Basic concepts of Neurology. Brain and spinal cord constitute the central nervous system (CNS) Purpose: Communication Cellular unit of the nervous system: neurons CNS consists of about 12 billion neurons. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Language and the brain
Insights from Neurolinguistics
Brain and spinal cord constitute the central nervous system (CNS)◦ Purpose: Communication
Cellular unit of the nervous system: neurons◦ CNS consists of about 12 billion neurons.◦ Brain consists of about 10 billion neurons.
Brain stem is the control system◦ Regulates breathing, muscle movement, sleep,
body temperature etc.
Basic concepts of Neurology
Modularity and Localization
Phrenology (Gall, 1796)
Basic concepts of Neurology Brain consists of two
hemispheres◦ Right side controls left body
side and vice versa◦ Dichotic listening tests
Hemispheres are connected through Corpus callosum
Language is a left hemisphere phenomenon
Paul Broca (French surgeon and anatomist)◦ Research on brain damage◦ Broca’s area◦ Broca’s aphasia
Carl Wernicke (German physician)◦ Confirmed theory of left hemisphere◦ Wernicke’s area◦ Wernicke’s aphasia
Pioneers of Neurolinguistics
Aphasia and locality
What language impairments are found in Broca's aphasia?
Nonfluent, labored, and hesitant speech absence of function words and inflectional
morphology, short utterances, relatively intact comprehension, awareness of deficit.
Broca’s aphasia
The language symptoms of Wernicke's aphasia are complementary to those of Broca's aphasia.
fluent but empty speech, grammatical inflections, normal
prosody utterances of normal length poor comprehension unaware of deficit.
Wernicke's Aphasia
Goodglass, H., & Kaplan, E. (1983). Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination. (2nd ed.). Media, PA: Williams & Wilkins.
“Cookie jar…fall over…chair…water…empty…ov…ov…[Examiner: “overflow?”] Yeah.”
BROCA’S APHASIA
Heny, Jeannine. “Brain and Language (Clark, 634-657).
Well, this is…mother is away here workingout o’here to get her better, but when she’s working, the two boys looking in the other part. One their small tile into her time here. She’s working another time because she’s getting, too.”
WERNICKE’S APHASIA
Heny, Jeannine. “Brain and Language (Clark, 634-657).
Young man, both spoken and sign language:◦ Accident and damage to brain◦ Both spoken and sign languages are affected
Deaf-mute person, sign language:◦ Stroke and damage to left-side of the brain◦ Impairment in sign language
Signer Aphasia
Language learning and brain development go hand in hand.
Children need to be exposed to language early.
Brain is resilient: Early damage can cause right hemisphere
to take over language control.
Language and brain development
Explain how Genie’s language development fits into the theories of Lenneberg, Chomsky and brain development.
According to this text, what is the strongest evidence supporting the theory of a “critical period” for language acquisition?
Was Genie’s early language deprivation the ONLY factor that contributed to her abnormal language development? Explain what other factor(s) might have been involved.
The critical period hypothesis