Exam 11: Language and Lateralization

An individual who can physically see known written words, but has no idea what the meaning is, suffers from:

A primary reason apes cannot "speak" English is because their larynx cannot produce the necessary range of sounds.

Children with autism prefer speech produced by their parents over those sounds made by a computer.

Why can it be so difficult to learn a second language as an adult?

What is one obstacle to using fMRI to study brain regions?

Patients who are unable to _______ nouns are nonetheless able to recognize objects.

If the muscle fibers or sound-producing organs used to produce speech are injured, the result is:

According to the analytic-synthetic theory, the right hemisphere is thought to be more of the "big picture" hemisphere.

Split-brain patients are those who have undergone:

The inability to repeat words spoken by another is called:

Damage to the left hemisphere can cause both language and __________ problems.

An individual is showing an inability to communicate effectively. They speak slowly and with great difficulty, and leave out connecting words such as "and". This person most likely is suffering from:

Aphasias can only by caused by damage to Broca's area.

Often those with dyslexia have _____ problems.

The viewpoint that humans are wired to learn a language is called:

Statistical learning __________ in language in order to figure out its meaning.

Infants learn what vocalizations are useful through the attention of caregivers.

The corpus callosum connects:

If a doctor puts an object in a person's right visual field and asked the person to name the object and point to it, then puts the same object in their left visual field and asks the person to name the object and point to it, the doctor may be checking for:

When babies are born, they can only hear a limited amount of sounds in the human language.