Exam 11: Language

Segmenting the boundaries between words is a particularly difficult computational problem in

What is conduction aphasia? What causes this syndrome? How does it differ from Broca's and Wernicke's aphasia?

You receive a text message that reads "My steak eaten up by the broccoli." Which word would lead to a P600 for you?

An early ERP component associated with morphosyntactic violations is the

Semantic priming effects are due to spreading activation in many models of lexical processing.

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

The observation that we can understand the speech of different speakers, regardless of variations in the pitches of the speakers' voices, the speakers' rates of speech, and the speakers' dialects, indicates that

The left perisylvian network of language includes which areas?

Which of the following statements does NOT describe agrammatic aphasics?

A patient's symptoms include poor spoken and written comprehension but fluent and reasonably grammatical speech output. Which part of this person's brain is most likely damaged?

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, if true, would be most helpful toward advancing our understanding of the anatomy of language?

A current controversy regarding the usefulness of Broca's aphasia as a diagnostic category focuses on the observation that

Homo sapiens have made the leap from ________ to ________ sequences.

People with Broca's aphasia may have subtle deficits in their ability to comprehend language based on its grammatical structure. This symptom is called

The mental lexicon is thought to be organized as a semantic network in which word meanings are connected to each other, as in the two-dimensional diagram here. Based on what you know about how strength of association between word meanings is represented in semantic networks, determine which of the following statements regarding the network is true.

In Hagoort's language model, the "memory" component is mediated by the ________, the "unification" component by the ________, and the "control" component by the ________.

________ is a general term for deficits in language comprehension and production that occur as the result of brain injury.

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.

In studies with implanted electrodes, Sahin and colleagues (2009) found that Broca's area processed which elements of language?