28.1011, FYI: Online lecture: ''Was Wernicke Right?'' March 2nd

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Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:40:13
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online lecture: ''Was Wernicke Right?'' March 2nd

 
Thursday, March 2nd, 2pm EDT

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“Was Wernicke Right?”
Argye Hillis, MD
Johns Hopkins University

Lesion-deficit association studies complement functional neuroimaging studies
in identifying the neural basis for behaviors by revealing areas of brain
essential for the task, rather than those that are merely engaged in a
particular task.  However, lesion studies sometimes appear to yield
conflicting results about the necessity of a particular area for a given
function. A case in point is the role of Wernicke’s area in auditory
comprehension. I will review evidence for the role of Wernicke’s area in
auditory word comprehension from previously published studies of patients with
a variety of neurological diseases as well as evidence from functional
neuroimaging.  I will also present some new data from both acute and chronic
stroke that bear on this topic.  The preponderance of the data from these
various sources converges in support of the hypothesis that Wernicke’s area
(defined as left superior temporal gyrus and surrounding cortex in inferior
parietal cortex and middle temporal gyus) is one module in the ventral stream
critical for accessing word meaning from spoken words. I use these data to
illustrate how the convergence of different sources of lesion data can provide
strong evidence for the role of a particular area in a given function. 
Finally, I provide recent data indicating that one role of Wernicke’s area is
to link spoken words to their meanings.

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C-Star Lecture Series:

The Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR; http://cstar.sc.edu)
houses researchers who examine the effects of behavioral treatment, brain
stimulation, and residual brain function (brain plasticity) on recovery from
aphasia. C-STAR is a collaboration between researchers from the University of
South Carolina, the Medical University of South Carolina, Johns Hopkins
University, and the University of California, Irvine. The Center is funded
through the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
grant #NIH P50 DC014664. Biweekly public lectures, given by members and guests
of C-STAR, are accessible live and online. Recordings of the lectures can be
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For more information, please contact Dirk den Ouden (denouden at sc.edu;
803-777-9241)
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics





 



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