Exam 11: Language

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What pathway does spoken word recognition take in the brain? Describe the role of the most important areas in this network.

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Spoken word recognition involves a complex pathway in the brain that includes several important areas. The process begins in the auditory cortex, where the sound of the spoken word is first processed. From there, the auditory information is sent to the Wernicke's area, which is responsible for language comprehension and understanding the meaning of the spoken word.

Once the word is understood, the information is then sent to the angular gyrus, which is involved in the processing of written and spoken language. This area helps to link the auditory information with the visual and semantic representations of the word.

Finally, the information is sent to the Broca's area, which is responsible for speech production. This area helps to form the motor plans necessary for producing the spoken word.

Overall, the pathway for spoken word recognition involves the auditory cortex, Wernicke's area, angular gyrus, and Broca's area, all of which play crucial roles in processing and understanding spoken language.

The three primary ways in which words are symbolized in different writing systems are alphabetic, syllabic, and logographic.

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________ is to the meaning of a word as ________ is to the spelling of a word.

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Animal calls were thought to be purely emotional. Which of the following findings with monkey calls does NOT contradict this view?

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A patient with dysarthria has trouble

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Which of the following statements best describes agrammatic aphasics?

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The immediate assignment of syntactic structure of incoming words is known as parsing.

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A person with conduction aphasia is most likely to have difficulty in

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Which of the following sentences would a person with Broca's aphasia be most likely to misunderstand?

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The language-relevant regions of the right hemisphere would be most critical to understanding which of the following?

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What is the main reason that there has been more success teaching nonhuman primates to use sign language than spoken language?

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According to Levelt, information-specific networks exist for word forms at the ________ level and for the grammatical properties of words at the ________ level.

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Describe Hagoort's model of language, including its three functional components and the brain areas to which they relate.

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What is a semantic paraphasia? What does this tell us about the way in which words are organized in the mental lexicon?

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Which of the following best describes the three main components of word or lexical processing in the correct order, according to most modular models of word recognition?

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The German neurologist Wernicke found that injury to which region of the brain resulted in poor language comprehension and nonsensical but relatively fluent speech?

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Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that make a difference to meaning.

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The concept of "words in the same neighborhood" is analogous to which of the following in the semantic domain?

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What role does the right hemisphere play in language comprehension? Describe two experimental techniques that would allow you to dissociate the contribution of the right hemisphere from that of the left.

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Which of the following brain structures is NOT directly involved in language?

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