Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics

Language and the brain.

• There are 3 main areas where the ability to use language is located

* Broca’s area * Wernicke’s area * Supplementary motor area

Broca’s Area

• This area of the brain is crucially involved in the production of speech.

• Paul Broca, a french surgeon, stablished in 1860s extreme difficulties affecting the produccion of speech were extremelly related to this left area of our brains.

Wernicke’s Area

• It is that part of the brain involved in the understanding of speech

• Carl Wernicke, a german doctor, stated in 1870s that all those patients with damage in this part of the brain, presented comprehension difficulties.

Supplementary Motor Area

• In this part of the brain are found all those physical features which allows us to reproduce speech.

Localization View

• This states that specific features of language ability can be related to specific localizations in the brain.

• In this sense a word is heard and comprehend by Wernicke’s area, then it is send to Broca’s area where it is prepared to be produce, finally, It is articulated by supplementary motor area.

Tongue tips and slips

• These are some difficulties we all have sometime in keeping our brain and speech working effectibly.

* Tips of the tongue: when you forget about a word you already know.

* Malapromism: when we want to refer to a word and name a series of other with similar pronunciation.

* Slip of the tongue( Spoonerims): when someone interchange certain sound form word to another

A long shory sort by A long story short * Slips of the ears: when someone hears

something very different in meaning but similar in sound.

Aphasia

• Brocas’s aphasia- Difficulties in articulating some words

• Wernicke’s aphasia- Dificulties with auditory comprehension

Dichonic listening Test

Remembering…

The critical period

Ginis’s case

• Where is language located in the brain?

• What happend with the right hemisphere?

• How did neurologists arrive to all this conclusions?

• What is the name of all those language difficulties?