2020/1 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

—  Results by the damage to the Arcuate Fasciculus .

—  Characteristics:

¡  Good language comprehension- Wernicke's area is intact.

¡  Connections between Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas have been impaired- patients are unable to repeat what they hear.

¡  Their spontaneous speech is often like that of Wernicke's aphasics.

¡  Oral reading is poor, but auditory comprehension is good.

Dichotic Listening

—  Right ear advantage

—  The right hemisphere

¡  non-verbal sounds (music, coughs, traffic noises, bird singing) and all non-language sounds (among other things)

¡  Holistic (whole) processing

—  Left hemisphere

¡  language sounds

¡  Analytical processing (recognizing sounds, words, and sentences)