... the coordination of separate brain areas when executing one simple cognitive task, such as talking or listening (Kalat, 2013). Damage to any of these areas will result in a language disorder, such as aphasia. Aphasia refers to the collective deficits in language comprehension and production that are caused by neurological damage. Problems with the language-processing mechanisms is referred ... or phrases), word salads (jumbled nonsensical sentences) and neologisms (made-up words, resulting from anomia) (Banich, 2011). Unaware of their meaningless speech, these aphasics show impaired compr...

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