Exam 9: Hearing and Language

In is to out as ___ is to ___.

Which of the following is a disturbance in the comprehension or production of language that is caused by brain damage?

If you had damage to your frontal lobe area anterior to the motor cortex,you would exhibit a problem in speech called ___.

Individuals can most easily detect the location of a sound source when it is located:

Broca's area lies anterior and adjacent to the:

In dyslexics,there is evidence that the left side of the planum temporale is larger than the right

Thomas Edison compensated for his deafness by biting down on the wooden case of his phonograph and listening to the recording using bone conduction.What form of sound analysis does this not use?

According to Békésy's observations,higher frequency sounds produced vibrations near the _____ of the basilar membrane while lower frequency sounds resulted in vibrations centered near the _____ of the basilar membrane. A)base,apex B)apex,base C)cochlear end,tectorial end D)basilar end,tectorial end

The magnocellular cells in the visual cortex of dyslexics are smaller than normal.

A complex sound such as a clarinet has what frequency components?

Define pitch and loudness and describe their detection by the auditory system.Include place and frequency theories.

The receptive organ for the vestibular sense is the organ of Corti.

When a mother can identify the sound of her baby's cries over other sounds,her sound discrimination ability is a function of her _____.

What are the functions of the two types of hair cells? What are the connections between them and the brain?

Language in most people is considered to be primarily a function of the:

How loud a sound is to a human is a function of its _____ and its_____.

Which of the following brain regions is involved in Broca's aphasia?

Humans are most sensitive to frequencies in the range of:

One of the primary characteristics of Wernicke's aphasia is:

Auditory receptor cells are located in the ossicles.