Language Processing in the Primary Cortex

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Augsburg, language: English, abstract: The thesis aims to transmit knowledge about which cortical brain areas may be involved in language processing and how these mechanisms may be structured. Furthermore, an overview of how language-brain relations were seen in the past is given, followed by a basic anatomical description of the whole brain to fully understand neural language mechanisms. In addition, major language disorder types whose examinations have contributed to the location of language functions are described. The work concludes with an outline of the most important investigative methods by means of which detailed scientific language-related research could be conducted.