The Mind Brain And Language Neurological Linguistics

Jaycie Carvalho

Professor Yumiko Ohara

LING 102

The Mind, Brain, and Language: Neurology Linguistics As discussed in class, my paper is on Neurology Linguistics, or Neurolinguistics. Since I am a psychology major I wanted to incorporate that into my linguistics class. The term Neurolinguistics came from the founder of the Journal of Neurolinguistics, Harry Whitaker. Neurolinguistics is the branch of linguistics associated with the relationship between the functioning of the brain, structure, and language. It is the study of how neural mechanisms in the brain control the comprehension and production of our brain, and the acquisition of language. To find out where our knowledge of language, such as, speech, writing, reading, and interpreting information is stored in the brain, we need to know parts of the brain. Parts of the brain I will talk about are the right hemisphere, the left hemisphere, and the corpus callosum, which splits the two. The corpus callosum is a nerve fiber and separates the cerebral cortex lobes, which are the left and right hemisphere. Its function is for both hemispheres to communicate

The left hemisphere is responsible for controlling the right side of the body and is the more academic side or “logic” side, dealing with mathematics and science. The left hemisphere, or cortex of your brain is critical for written and spoken language, no matter what language you read or write. Damaging the left hemisphere can cause loss of sensation or become weak/paralysis on the right side of the body. It can also cause you to lose vision in your right eye or both. Since the left side of your brain deals with mathematics and science, it is reasonable that you would have difficulty with understanding numbers and dealing with money. Also, because this side is responsible for language and speech, it causes those types of problems, known as