Describe a brain pathway for language

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Assignment:

A. Language Circuits in the Brain:

Click on the following link, view the video, and answer the following questions:

1. In the first few minutes of the video, the professor describes a brain pathway for language that involves first the sensory input of speech sounds, then making meaning of those sounds, and lastly both comprehending and producing speech.

a. Where in the brain is the receptive area for speech sounds?

b. What area is where we attach a meaning to the sensory information?

c. When information then gets sent to the frontal lobe, what two language abilities are generated there?

2. Describe what was learned about areas of the brain important for language in people who are born deaf from a deaf woman who had a stroke in her visual cortex.

3. What is the important area for speech production and what is the evidence that supports it?

4. What is the important area for speech comprehension and what is the evidence for that?

5. Describe the differences between Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia.

6. What are the advantages of having the sensory input areas for language connected to the motor output areas for language in the brain?

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