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NewsLink: Language and Lateralization
This assignment will help you make connections between the science of biopsychology and your daily life, and keep you apprised of the latest developments in the field. You will search BioPsychology NewsLink (3e.mindsmachine.com/news) for a media article related to the Language and Lateralization chapter. You can search by keyword using the chapter’s key terms in the list below, or click on the links by chapter. You can also enter one of the keywords on Google (news tab). Once you find a layperson article you’re interested in, complete your journal entry by answering the six assignment questions.
Assignment
The journal is not a paper! Aim for one sentence per prompt. Work offline in a word processing program, but cut and paste your answers into the text box. Kindly do not attach a document.
- What keyword did you search?
- What is the article about?
- How was the research conducted?
- What results caught your eye?
- What conclusions can you draw?
- What is the link to your article?
Key Terms
agnosia
agraphia
alexia
anomia
aphasia
apraxia
arcuate fasciculus
astereognosis
Broca’s area
cerebral lateralization
chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
communication
concussion
conduction aphasia
connectionist model of aphasia
constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT)
contralateral
corpus callosum
deep dyslexia
dichotic presentation
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
DTI tractography
dyslexia
embryonic stem cell
fluent aphasia
fusiform gyrus
global aphasia
grammar
hemiparesis
hemiplegia
language
morpheme
motor theory of language
nonfluent aphasia
paraphasia
phoneme
planum temporale
pragmatics
prosody
prosopagnosia
recovery of function
sensitive period
spatial cognition
split-brain individual
stuttering
surface dyslexia
syntax
tachistoscope test
Wada test
Wernicke’s area
Williams syndrome
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