temporal lobe

Cards (16)

  • temporal lobe location
    • both sides of brain near ears
  • temporal lobe responsible for
    • registering sounds
  • temporal lobe regulates
    • hearing
    • language skills
    • social understanding
    • perception of facves
  • association cortex of temporal lobe
    • memories
    • making decisions
    • facial recognition
  • damage to temporal lobe
    • amnesia
    • facial recognition difficulty
    • disturbance regarding auditory sensation and perception
  • amnesia
    loss of memory for knowledge
  • temporal lobe
    auditory information
  • damage to left temporal lobe
    • loss of memory for verbal material
    • facts or skill
    • wernickes area
  • damage to right temporal lobe
    • loss of memory for non - verbal material
    • music and drawinh
  • primary auditory cortex
    • receives and processes auditory information from ears
    • and integrates it with information from there senses
  • left temporal lobe
    • verbal sounds
    • words
  • right temporal lobe
    • non verbal sounds
    • music
  • wernickes area location
    left temporal lobe
  • wernickes area regulates
    • language comprehension
    • identifies sounds as words so their meaning can be understood
  • damage to wernickes area
    wernickes aphasia
  • wernickes aphasia
    • result of damage to wernickes area
    • speech comprehension impairment