Written language comprehension
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What factors contribute to our understanding of written language? Give examples and describe how comprehension of written language can be improved.
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This document gives a brief overview of the role of brain regions involved in written language comprehension.
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Left hemisphere- dominant in language processing, both written and spoken.
Wernicke's aphasia draws evidence to the role of the Wernicke's area for language comprehension.
Patients suffering from Wernicke`s aphasia usually speak very fluently, words are pronounced correctly, but they are combined senselessly - "word salad" is the way it is most often described. Understanding what patients of Wernicke`s aphasia say is especially difficult, because they use paraphasias (substitution of a word in verbal paraphasia, of word with similar meaning in semantic paraphasia, and of a phoneme in phonemic paraphasia) and neologisms. With Wernicke`s aphasia the comprehension of simple sentences is a very difficult task. Their ability to process auditory language input ...
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