Comparing Broca's The Brain And Its Function

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No matter how fast you can finish or read a book, how fast can you read it with a given time? Think about this, each person has a different speed at how fast they can read out loud or speak and how their brain processes it, but how will the rate they read at change once they’re given a short amount, such as one minute to read an excerpt. Most importantly is how accurate will their reading be. The Brain and Its Function The brain is a complex system that houses the controls to your body ranging from your reaction, emotion, speech or language, development, memory, body functions, and much more. It’s created of a jelly like fat and protein weighing in about three pounds. It’s the body’s biggest organ and consists of over one hundred billion …show more content…

The Broca’s area was not just a matter of getting language out in a motor manner but it was more involved in the ability to deal with grammar itself, at least the more complex aspect of grammar. Apart from the Broca’s area, there‘s aphasia, the inability to speak, the inability to produce speech is Broca’s aphasia, or expressive aphasia. Someone with this kind of aphasia has little problem understanding speech but when trying to speak themselves are capable of only slow, laborious, and often slurred sequences of words (http://webspace.ship.edu). They usually don’t produce complete sentences, and seldom the use of regular grammatical endings such as –ed for the past tense, also tend to leave out small grammatical words (http://webspace.ship.edu). The Wernicke’s area is involved in the understanding of written and spoken language. Just like the Broca’s aphasia there’s the Wernicke’s aphasia is when you ask a person a question and they respond with a sentence that is more or less grammatical, but contains words that have little to do with the questions or, for the matter, with each other. People with this type of aphasia have difficulty naming things, often then responding with words that sound similar, or names of related thing, it’s as if they are having an absolutely hard time with their mental “dictionaries.”

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