The Neurology of Language
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Neurolinguistics is important because it studies how the brain process language. In other words, it is the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain which control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language.
In accordance with the anatomy of the nervous system we can mention terms like neurons, cell body, axon, dendrites, and synapse in order to understand how our brain is composed. But the most important part of the nervous system for Neurolinguistics is the central nervous system known as CNS, which is composed by the brain and the spinal cord. Consequently it is important to mention that damage to the lower brain causes inability to produce articulate speech which is known as dysarthria.
In reference to history we can said that Neurolinguistics usually observe the language of patients with brain damage from a stroke, a tumor, or trauma; being more interesting stroke because it is capable to damage a very specific, localized part of the brain. In the 19th century the study of aphasia better known as linguistic deficit was developed as a result of brain damage. Thus, Neurolinguistics tried to find correspondences between particular language functions and particular parts of the brain.
Pierre Paul Broca was one of the people that perform studies to aphasia`s patients in order to find out on the autopsies, that damage was localized on the left frontal lobe hemisphere so he shown evidence that the left frontal lobe is specialized for language, which would be comprehensive but not produce it. In sum, Localizationists believed that specific parts of the brain controlled different mental functions.
Later, Carl Wernicke’s proposal was that different areas of the brain were specialized for different linguistics functions, so his studies to aphasia`s patients practiced on the autopsies evidenced that damage was localized on the left temporal lobe hemisphere, which means that language could not be
Neurolinguistics is important because it studies how the brain process language. In other words, it is the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain which control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language.
In accordance with the anatomy of the nervous system we can mention terms like neurons, cell body, axon, dendrites, and synapse in order to understand how our brain is composed. But the most important part of the nervous system for Neurolinguistics is the central nervous system known as CNS, which is composed by the brain and the spinal cord. Consequently it is important to mention that damage to the lower brain causes inability to produce articulate speech which is known as dysarthria.
In reference to history we can said that Neurolinguistics usually observe the language of patients with brain damage from a stroke, a tumor, or trauma; being more interesting stroke because it is capable to damage a very specific, localized part of the brain. In the 19th century the study of aphasia better known as linguistic deficit was developed as a result of brain damage. Thus, Neurolinguistics tried to find correspondences between particular language functions and particular parts of the brain.
Pierre Paul Broca was one of the people that perform studies to aphasia`s patients in order to find out on the autopsies, that damage was localized on the left frontal lobe hemisphere so he shown evidence that the left frontal lobe is specialized for language, which would be comprehensive but not produce it. In sum, Localizationists believed that specific parts of the brain controlled different mental functions.
Later, Carl Wernicke’s proposal was that different areas of the brain were specialized for different linguistics functions, so his studies to aphasia`s patients practiced on the autopsies evidenced that damage was localized on the left temporal lobe hemisphere, which means that language could not be