Deck 18: Language

Question 1

Describe voxel-based lesion symptom mapping. What sort of inferences can be made from this technique?

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

Neuropsychological evidence suggests that a person with Broca's aphasia would not have difficulties with language comprehension.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

The phonological level of language processing is composed of:

A)Words
B)Sounds
C)Meaning
D)Grammar

Answer 3

B

Question 4

According to the model of speech production espoused by Indefrey and Levelt (2004), what stage of production planning follows lexical retrieval?

A)Articulatory planning
B)Message formulation
C)Grammatical encoding
D)Phonological encoding

Question 5

What type of model predicts the sensory consequences of actions?

Question 6

What function is the N400 believed to reflect in sentence processing? How is it elicited?

Question 7

What is a forward model? What evidence is there that this type of model might be involved in language production?

Question 8

What is the "words and rules" theory of past tense verb formation? Describe evidence in favor of and against this theory.

Question 9

Which fiber bundle is thought to connect posterior temporal and inferior frontal regions via the "dorsal route"?

Question 10

List four levels of processing in language and describe the units that make up each.

Question 11

Which of the following functions has not been ascribed to the left inferior frontal gyrus (a.k.a., Broca's region)?

A)Inhibition of irrelevant thoughts
B)Cognitive control
C)Short-term memory
D)Syntax

Question 12

Beyond grammatical deficits, name three other deficits exhibited by the KE family.

Question 13

In which condition is activity in auditory cortex greater, when speaking and hearing one's speech, or when listening to a playback of the same utterance, but not speaking?

A)Speaking and listening
B)Just listening

Question 14

People with nonfluent, Broca's aphasia often have difficulty speaking words in the regular past tense in English (e.g., sleep/slept). What are two accounts of this deficit?

Question 15

Where is Broca's region located? List three functions ascribed to this region.

Question 16

According to Hickok and Poeppel's dual-route model of speech perception, what role is the dorsal route serving?

Question 17

Under classic definitions from early neuropsychology, for what functions were Broca's and Wernicke's areas responsible?

Question 18

What evidence is there for predictive coding in language comprehension and production?

Question 19

What are the "dual routes" involved in speech perception, and what functions are they hypothesized to subserve?

Question 20

What is the "lack of invariance problem" in speech perception?

Question 21

What is dyslexia? What evidence is there that the problems with dyslexia might not only be visual?