Exam 11: Language and Lateralization

Averbia is the inability to:

Inflammation of the vocal folds is called:

You ask you mother, "What would you like for your birthday?" The communication in this sentence is:

The right hemisphere is usually more active when listening to music.

Those with deep dyslexia will have difficulty:

In a split-brain patient, a brain hemisphere relies on outside events to know what is happening in the opposite hemisphere. For example, the left hemisphere, non-dominant for emotions, can pick up signals from facial expressions. This is referred to as:

Parentese is used by parents to speak to their babies. This "language" is characterized by:

What would the communication of a deaf person with expressive aphasia look like?

Sakai's study on a causal link between brain region and language used:

Creoles were used by Bickerton to study:

The motor theory states that the left hemisphere:

Aphasia is characterized by the inability to produce or understand language due to:

Difficulty thinking of the correct word to say is called:

The fact that the planum temporale is usually larger in the left hemisphere has led to suppositions that it is involved in:

Which is an argument against universal grammar?

Chomsky pioneered the term, "universal grammar", which he used to refer to idea that:

If someone has difficulty recognizing words at the orthographic level, this means that they have trouble recognizing ______ language.

The intonations, stresses, and rhythms of speech is called:

The inability to comprehend language occurs after damage to:

A patient is able to produce words, but when they speak, it is unintelligible. Sometimes the words are nonsense words, although the patient speaks in a melodic and rhythmic way. They appear to have no idea what anyone is saying to them, although they attempt to answer. This patient may be suffering from: