Exam 19: Language and Lateralization

Explain how constraint-induced movement therapy can help individuals that have been paralyzed from brain injury. How can the use of a mirror assist people with rehabilitation?

Matching -Ectopias _____

Matching -Speech production _____

Recovery of language function following a stroke may take place as a result of a

Briefly discuss the relationship between hand gestures and speech and between the brain regions thought to process speech and sign language.

Refer to the figure. Which statement about the arrow in the figure is most accurate?

Unusual groupings of cells in the outer layers of the cerebral cortex have been seen in postmortem studies of

Children show evidence of sensitivity to the "rules" of language by the age of _______ months.

Describe the Wada test and how it has been used to examine hemispheric specializations.

Describe how the testing of split-brain patients demonstrates lateralization of function between the two cerebral hemispheres. How do these patients differ from people with callosal agenesis (born without a corpus callosum)?

Persons with conduction aphasia are unable to

Describe the advances in MRI technology that have allowed us to study fiber connections in the living brain. What is the basis for MRI, in general, and what allows for resolution of white matter specifically?

Matching -Nonfluent aphasia _____

In boxers, the devastating effects of repeated blows to the head are evident in the development of a progressive cognitive impairment called _______.

Discuss some of the data concerning the organization of language in the brain as revealed by electrical stimulation of the brain in conscious humans.

The proposal that left-hemisphere language zones are motor control systems involved in the production and perception of speech patterns is characteristic of

Write a coherent and informative paragraph incorporating each of the following terms or concepts: Williams syndrome; fluency; intellectual function; elastin.

A native English-speaking person with _______ dyslexia would have great difficulty reading the title The Tough Coughs as He Ploughs the Dough.

Provide an overview of the symptomatology and neuroanatomical correlates of dyslexia.

Childhood hemispherectomy is often followed by