Exam 10: Language

Van Turrennout and colleagues (1999)conducted an event-related potential (ERP)study in which Dutch participants viewed pictures and responded according to the (syntactic)gender of the items,but withheld some of their responses based on the initial sound of the word.They found that the lateralized readiness potential was ________ on the trials in which participants withheld their responses,suggesting that the Levelt theory,in which ________,is correct.

People with deep dyslexia are comparable to people with Wernicke's aphasia in that they also

Disruptions of language that occur as a consequence of brain injury that are side effects of primary problems in other cognitive domains such as attention,memory,or perception are called

Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that make a difference to meaning.

According to Marslen-Wilson and Tyler's (1980)cohort model of word recognition,

Which of the following sentences would a person with Broca's aphasia be most likely to misunderstand?

The French neurologist Broca was among the first researchers to notice that language deficits resulting from brain injury are often accompanied by hemiparesis on the ________ of the body,which indicates that the ________ hemisphere is especially critical to language function.

________ specifically refers to the variations in the pitch of a speaker's voice that convey emotion and emphasis in speech.

According to Levelt's (1989)model of speech production,two main processing stages are involved in generating a meaningful utterance.In the ________ stage,the speaker determines what he or she intends to express to the listener;in the ________ stage,word choices and the grammatical role that each word will play are determined.

Which of the following best describes a case that depends primarily on prosodic aspects of language?

When you are shown the written word "neuroscience" and you read it aloud,you are translating ________ information into ________ information about this word.

An aphasic person whose only language symptom is that she commits many semantic paraphasia errors probably has a deficit involving the

Language errors in which a person substitutes words that are related in meaning for one another are called

Lexical priming effects are mediated entirely by implicit or automatic processes.

Saying the word "horse" when intending to say the word "cow" is an example of a semantic paraphasia.

Which of the following sentences illustrates a violation of thematic roles?

The P600,also known as the SPS,is an ERP component that is sensitive to the violation of expectations based on

According to Levelt,information-specific networks exist for word forms at the ________ level and for the grammatical properties of words at the ________ level.

Patient "Tan" studied by the neurologist Broca had great difficulty in generating spontaneous speech and was unable to utter any word other than the nonsense syllable "tan." Postmortem autopsy of Tan's brain revealed

Which of the following best describes the three main components of word or lexical processing in the correct order,according to most modular models of word recognition?