Chapter Twenty Language
1. Where is the language area known as W emicke's area located? Choose the
correct option.
A) Left frontal cortex near the primary motor area
B) Left superior surface of temporal lobe between the auditory cortex and the angular
gyms
C) In the parietal occipital junction of the left hemisphere near the end of the
Sylvian fissure
D) In the left precentral gyms
2. What are the characteristics ofWemicke's aphasia? Choose the correct option.
A) Good comprehension but poor language production
B) Fluent speech and poor comprehension
C) Poor comprehension and poor language production
D) Agrammatical speech and unilateral deafness
3. What does the WernickeGeschwind model propose as the role Broca's area plays in
language processing? Choose the correct option.
A) Broca's area processes sounds as meaningful words.
B) Word-based signals are passed to Wemicke's area via the arcuate fasciculus.
C) Words are converted to a code for the muscular movements required for speech.
D) Broca's area controls the movement oflips, tongue, and larynx.
4. What is the term for the inability to find words? Choose the correct option.
A) Agrammatism
B) Anomia
C) Paraphasic errors
D) Aphasia
5. What did Gazzaniga and colleagues reveal about hemispheric dominance for language
in his studies of humans in whom the corpus callosum had been severed? Choose the
correct option.
A) If a split-brain person sees a word in the left visual field, he usually says he
sees nothing.
B) If a split-brain person sees a word in the right visual field, he says he sees
nothing. C) The left hemisphere can read words, but the right hemisphere is
necessary to speak
the words.
D) The right hemisphere knows nothing about language.
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