NEUROLINGUISTICS

Discussant: Repil, Jelyn R.

I. Objectives:

After the discussion of the lesson, the students will be able to:

1) Know the definition of Neurolinguistics.

2) Learn about the History of Neurolinguistics.
3) Determine the difference between Aphasia and Dyslexia.
4) Learn the human brain organization.
5) Analyze, where is the language in the brain.
II. Energizer: 4 Pic 1 Word
Procedure:
1. The reporter will show four picture.
2. The students need to answer only one word after the reporter showed the pictures.
III. Introduction:
I will introduce myself as the discussant of the given topic. And I will give some
overview of my topic about Neurolinguistics and other information that was
related to my topic.
IV. Continuation of the lesson
V. Assessment: (Multiple Choice with 15 - items)

NEUROLINGUISTICS

 study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension,

production, and acquisition of language.

 branch of linguistics dealing mainly with the biological basis of the relationship of the

human language and brain.

HISTORY OF NEUROLINGUISTICS

 Historically rooted in the development in the 19th century of aphasiology.

 Paul Broca is one of the first person who draw the connection between the language

processing and the particular brain area.

 Broca is a French surgeon who conducted autopsies on numerous individuals who had

speaking deficiencies, and found that most of them had brain damage (or lesions) on the
left frontal lobe.
  Carl Wernicke proposed that different areas of the brain were specialized for different
linguistic tasks.
 Broca's area handling the motor production of speech while Wernicke's area handling
auditory speech comprehension. Their work is established the field of aphasiology and
the idea that language can be studied through examining physical characteristics of the
brain.
 The coining of the term "neurolinguistics" has been attributed to Harry Whitaker.

APHASIA AND DYSLEXIA

Aphasia
 is an acquired communication disorder that impairs a person's ability to process
language, but does not affect intelligence.
 Aphasia impairs the ability to speak and understand others, and most people with
aphasia experience difficulty to read and write.

Dyslexia
 is an inherited language-based learning disability caused by a neirologically-based
disorder.
 Dyslexia can interfere with a person's ability to process language. This difficulty would be
emphasized mostly (reading, pronouncing words, writing, spelling, handwriting and
sometimes arithmetic within a person's life).
 This often occurs due to problems in phonological processing, expressive language, and

receptive language.

HUMAN BRAIN ORGANIZATION

THE BRAIN
HAS 4 AREAS
CALLED
LOBES:
 Frontal

(Problem Solving)
 Largest part
 Moves your body
 Highly developed
 Forms your personality
 Parietal (Touching)
 Two major divisions: Anterior and Posterior
 Senses hot and cold, hard and soft, and pain.
 Taste and smell
 Helps integrate the senses.
 Temporal (Hearing)
 Process auditory stimuli
 Wernicke's Area (associated with speech comprehension)
 Broca's Area (associated with speech production)
 Occipital (Seeing)
 Located at lower central back of brain
 Process visual stimuli
Left Hemisphere
 process things more in parts & sequentially.
  recognizes positive emotions.
 identified with practicality and rationality.
 understands symbols and representations.
 processes rapid auditory information faster than the right (crucial for separating the
sounds of speech into distinct units for comprehensions).
 responsible for language development. It develops slower in boys, that is why males

usually develop more language problems than females.

Right Hemisphere
 recognizes negative emotions.
 high level mathematicians, problem solver like chess playing.
 the "non-verbal" side
 responds to touch & music (sensory)
 intuitive
 responsive to color & shape
 emotional & creative
2 Sides Recognize Information:
1. Left Brain
 Letters
 Numbers
 Words
2. Right Brain
 Faces
 Places
 Objects

Reference: http://www.slideshare.net/kiprus/neurolinguistics-workshop?from_m_app=android
http://www.slideshare.net/MARSHALhaked/language-and-the-brain-49649684?
from_m_app=android

Assessment: Multiple Choice (15-items)

1) Branch of linguistics that deals with the relationship of human language and brain?
a. Sociolinguistics b. Neurolinguietics c. Psycholonguistics
2) A French surgeon conducted autopsies on numerous individuals?

a. Carl Wernicke b. Harry Whitaker c. Paul Broca

3) The person who attributed the term "neurolinguistics"?

a. Carl Wernicke b. Harry Whitaker c. Paul Broca

4) Who proposed the different areas of the brain were specialized for different linguistic tasks?

a. Carl Wernicke b. Harry Whitaker c. Paul Broca

5) _____________ can interfere with a person's ability to process language.

a. Dyslexia b. Brain damage c. Aphasia

6) _____________ impairs the ability to speak and understand others, difficulty to read and
write.

a. Dyslexia b. Brain damage c. Aphasia

7) Areas of the brain that process visual stimuli.

a. Frontal Lobes b. Temporal Lobes c. Occipital Lobes

8) Areas of the brain that process auditory stimuli.

a. Frontal Lobes b. Temporal Lobes c. Occipital Lobes

9) Areas of the brain that is highly developed.

a. Parietal Lobes b. Frontal Lobes c. Temporal Lobes

10) Areas of the brain wher there is two major divisions: Anterior and Posterior.

a. Parietal Lobes b. Frontal Lobes c. Temporal Lobes

11) It is a side that recognize the objects.

a. Right Hemisphere b. Right Brain c. Left Hemisphere

12) It is a side that recognize the faces.

 a. Right Hemisphere b. Right Brain c. Left Hemiephere

13) It is a side that recognize the words.

a. Left Hemiephere b. Left Brain c. Right Brain

14) ______________ is the "non-verbal" side.

a. Right Hemisphere b. Right Brain c. Left Brain

15) ______________ is responsible for language development.

a. Right Hemiephere b. Left Hemisphere c. Right Brain