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Chapter 12 Language Brain (12.3 Are there components of language…
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:check: Broca's area, Wernicke's area and motor area: vital to speech and language.
Nervous system
:check: high structures being more complex than lower ones.
:check: the sheath of gray matter called the cortex
:check: precentral gyrus = motor strip
:check: corpus callosum --> electrical impulses
:check: right hemisphere can understand oral as good as written language to some extent.
The nervous system is capable of scanning incoming stimuli and routing them to that area of the brain specialized for their interpretation.
:check: left hemisphere may be dominant for more than the phonetic structure of language.
:check: oral nonverbal apraxia is associated with left hemisphere damage.
:check: injury to the right hemisphere can result in visuospatial impairment.
: :check:Bilolinguists are interested in the correlation between brain damage and speech and language deficits.
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Akmajian, A., et.al (2010) LinguisticsAn Introduction to Language and Communication London: The MIT Press
