Janette Norden. Understanding the Brain. Narrated by Professor Janette Norden.

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. // The Great Courses. TTC Video.

Language. Part 4. Продолжительность 8:29

Glossary

Extrapyramidal motor system - экстрапирамидальная двигательная система (совокупность структур головного

мозга, участвующих в управлении движениями, поддержании мышечного тонуса и позы, минуя
пирамидальную систему)

Hippocampus – гиппокамп

Comprehension exercises

I. True / False/ not given

1. Inability to remember the word which denotes an object demonstrates that you are going to have a
neurological disorder in a short time not given
2. Lexicon is an instrument that allows us to classify the information which we get through sense organs True
3. To categorize the phenomena is human innate ability True
4. A two-year-old child is unable to tell a cat from a dog because the difference between these to species is
subtle. false
5. The lecturer speaks about a patient whom she saw as a student who was unable to hear nouns. false
6. It is only nouns which can be lost if a person suffers from a brain lesion. false
7. Internal thought exists because we speak language. false
8. When a person utters a clause, Broca’s and Wernicke’s areas are always activated false
9. The lecturer speaks about the daughter of a Danish mother and a French father to illustrate the fact that if a
baby is exposed to several languages, he/she will inevitably have more difficulties acquiring the ability to
speak than a baby from a monolingual environment. false
10. After a certain age your brain loses the ability to abstract grammar rules from the speech a human hears.
True
11. Children signers from Nicaragua were not spoken to by adults, they developed the sign language in
complete isolation. not given

II Select the word which was actually used by the lecturer.

A) Language is unique 1. __ capability ______ that we learners-humans have, helps us communicate with
others, or 2. __________ our sensory experience. We can 3. ____ Communicate _______ other people our
feelings, we can try anyway, that is just an 4 ____________ capability that we have. And short of brain 5
____________ you will always be able to communicate with other people, an incredibly wonderful
capability that we have.
1. __________
A) ability
B) capability
2. ____________
A) Organize
B) categorize
3. ______________
B) Communicate
C) Convey
4.
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 5. _____________
A) unbelievable
B) Incredible
6. _______________
A) Lesion
B) damage