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Language and the brain
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- 1LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN Aphasia: It´s an injury of the brain. The most devastating kind of linguistic deficit is the total inability to communicate using the language; and it is called global aphasia.BROCA´S APHASIA
It has the following characteristics:
It has great difficulties with producing speech, it is non-fluent, it´s slow, delibarate and effortful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szCeRbiEk6A - 2Wernike´s Aphasia Characteristics: It´s very difficult to understand the speech of others, these patients misinterpret what others say and respond in an unexpected way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szCeRbiEk6AConduction Aphasia
Characteristics: It results from a damage to the arcuate fasciculous, they show signs of understanding the speech of others, they are fluent but meaningless, they aren´t able to repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N91JMnoVSfI - 3Alexia and Agraphia Characteristics: Alexia is the inability to read and comprehend written words. Agraphia: Inability to write wordsDyslexia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafiGBrFkRM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEpBujdee8M - 4Each of the hemispheres is responsible for different for different cognitive functions; this is lateralization.The conections between the brain and the body are almost completely contralateral, this means that the right side of the brain controls the left side of your body and vice versa this is called contralatelalization.