Name: What Brain Damage Reveals About Language | Otherwords
Uploaded: 2023-07-27T20:08:29.000Z
Duration: 8 min 57 s
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action star and Hollywood legend Bruce Willis

This piece of news was particularly poignant

because of the reason for his retirement: aphasia.

that affects a person's ability to communicate,

often caused by strokes, brain injuries, tumors,

language is really more related to the brain

Whether you're shaping words with your mouth,

the bulk of the work is going on up here.

there are some areas that are more involved than others.

and other brain scanning technologies. How?

of patients who have experienced language impairments

By determining what has been lost or impaired,

neuroscientists have been better able to understand

of neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders

- The definition of neuropsychology literally is

the study of brain and behavior and that relationship.

we do checkups on different brain functions,

like attention, memory, visual perception, language.

and make sure that we are getting children the treatments

and track their development or their recovery over time.

the first answers were discovered in sort of a curious way.

Prior to technological advances in neuroimaging,

doctors couldn't see what was happening in the brain

and observe what areas lit up with various stimuli.

The only way to look at the brain was by opening it up.

separately discovered two regions of the brain

through conducting autopsies on aphasic patients.

- [Dr. Tan] Dr. Broca and Dr. Wernicke were able

that have resulting impacts on their ability to

either express language or to comprehend language.

And those parts, now referred to as Broca's area

and Wernicke's area, are in the left frontal

And that was one of the first signals to us

that the left hemisphere is dominant for language.

- For more than 95% of right-handed people

the left hemisphere is dominant for language.

that the language party is exclusively on the left side.

- Now that we've had more advancements in technology,

we now are seeing that language actually involves a lot

including, you know, implicating all four lobes,

that involves communication and coordination

between a lot of different parts of the brain.

you think, "Okay, yeah, sure, it's a ball,

Let's backtrack to what happened on the inside.

Then you have to convert the input into a semantic concept.

From there, you search through your mental Rolodex

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