Exam 11: Language and Lateralization

What did Roy's study on language development (using his child as his subject) show about the growth of new-word learning over the first two years of life?

The analytic-synthetic theory states that the left hemisphere and right hemisphere:

Songbirds raised in total isolated will produce songs drastically different from other birds of its species.

Sakai's study on a causal link between brain region and language asked participants to identify:

Stutterers may have difficulty realizing that they are stuttering due to the fact that they tend to have lower-than-normal activation in which area?

The ability for humans to hear different phonemes _______ with time.

Stuttering is linked to reduced activity in the:

When checking for language dominance in the brain, this may be used to anesthetize one hemisphere:

Speech is the way to express language.

Damage to the arcuate fasciculus will result in:

What evidence do we have to support the use of "parentese"?

Describe one of the split-brain studies that showed each hemisphere can act independently.

What is a lexigram?

The left and right hemisphere are connected by the:

Alexia (word blindness) result from damage to this area, situated near Wernicke's area:

The "poverty of the stimulus" argument states that children do not hear enough examples of language construction to:

Language dominancy can be most definitively determined through:

The inability to understand music is called:

Patients who recover from Wernicke's aphasia report that:

Someone who has difficulty recognizing words at the orthographic level has difficulty with spoken language.