One Way to Investigate the Way Language Is Processed in the Brain

question 95

Multiple Choice

One way to investigate the way language is processed in the brain is to study patients with ________________, language disorders caused by damage to the brain structures that support using and understanding language.

• A) agnosias
• B) agnathia
• C) aphasias
• D) alopecias

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Definitions:

Slave Code

Laws established in the colonial and antebellum South to regulate the lives of enslaved African Americans, dictating virtually every aspect of their lives.

Stephen Douglas

An American politician from Illinois and designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which promoted popular sovereignty allowing settlers to decide if they would allow slavery within their borders.

Southern Democrats

Members of the Democratic Party in the southern United States, historically associated with the defense of slavery pre-Civil War and support for segregation and Jim Crow laws post-Civil War.

1858 Senatorial Campaign

Notable for the series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, and Stephen A. Douglas, the Democratic nominee, focusing on the issue of slavery in America.