As someone with a blocking stutter, I'd love for more videos on speech and speech impediments. It's hard to explain it to someone when you cant really talk.
Aaah that's so interesting. We didn't even learn that in medical school! But that makes so much sense as the Wernicke area is interconnected with the auditorial cortex. I couldn't imagine talking and being so desperate why no one seems to understand what you are saying. It's like a horror movie.
Ikajo there was a patient in the tv series House that has this condition. He was a writer/author but after hitting his head quite hard, he spoke in weird financial terms that nobody quite understood
When I was younger I would occasionally speak absolute nonsense when getting up early in the morning. I remember waking up, walking into the living room, my dad was getting ready for the day and asked if I was almost ready, now I thought I was responding with "yeah I just gotta go to the bathroom." But my dad just stared at me. I'm not sure exactly what came out as my words weren't slurred and I thought I had pronounced everything fine. But he swears that I sounded like I was speaking spanish.
That's a good opinion. But through all the times this has happened I've been able to get a little insight. I've also been recorded in my waking moments and I've done it on film. It's like my words get switched around and they all get slurred heavily.
When I was 18, one day during lunch, I lost the feeling in my left hand. Then my left foot. Then my speech started getting worse. I couldn’t get words out, and was fully aware that I couldn’t. Went to the ER. Told the doctor I think I’m having a stroke. He smirked and said “You’re not having a stroke,” Until I told him the symptoms. By this time I had a headache on the right side of my head. He was still skeptical because he would expect that a stroke would have to be on the left side of my head in order to impact language. He asked if I was left handed. I nodded yes. That’s when he ordered a CT scan. I guess the speech center can be reversed in some left handed people? Anyway, yes. I was having a stroke. It turned out to be caused by a brain tumor. An astrocytoma. I had brain surgery (right parietal craniotomy) 2 days later. It took a year and a half for my speech to be at about 90%. 5 years to be at about 95% percent. About 10 years after the surgery to be at about 99%. But even longer to be able to mentally heal from the soul-crushing event to carry on a conversation with confidence. The feeling in my left foot fully returned. My left hand is still numb.
@@SamanthaSweetAnne There’s no evidence to support that. And my brain tumor experience happened before a cellphone had ever entered my house. And before Bluetooth existed.
You’re a stroke survivor and a fighter well done. 👊 And thank-you for sharing your story. That is heaps interesting. May the lord (Jesus) use your story and journey to help others. He was protecting you that day. And your recovery is outstanding.
On a related note, I often hear people on the topic of bilingualism talk about thinking in a specific language, but I don't think that's the best way to describe it. We do have an internal monologue, and that can be in one language or another, or multiple at once, but our thoughts are something different. Our thoughts exist independent of language. Language is just one of the tools we use to communicate, organize, and process those thoughts. This is why you can have a "tip of the tongue" moment. You have a thought, but you're struggling to find the word for that thought. The thought exists independent of your ability to communicate it. Language is an extremely useful tool, but sometimes it's worth remembering that there's a whole lot that our brains are capable of independent of language. You can think thoughts that you have no words for.
I speak 3 languages (all quite different from each other), and I can confirm this. If I switch enough between them, I start having "wordless thoughts." Like, the idea sits in my brain, and I have to semi-concsiously choose in which language to articulate the thought.
I work as a speech and language pathologist at a hospital, mainly in the stroke ward where I among other things diagnose aphasia. You'd me amazed how few textbook examples (even by modern research) of aphasias, in corellation to lesion sites, that we see. The brain is glorious, mysterious and scary all at the same time. 🤷♂️
As I have epilepsy, i found out that I have bilateral speech centers (ie: two), the left one has a lesion on it (just some extra cells), so the position is in Wernieke's area behind my left ear. It is interesting to note that it took some time for my language skills to develop and my ability read/write (Came to me with a lot of practice by the time I was 13 years old). I am also dyslexic, which might have something to do with the two speech centers interferring with each other.
Thank you for this episode! I have a degree in Linguistics, and this was one of my favourite areas of study- especially seeing videos of cases of Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia. But trying to explain these to my friends and family can be difficult without them having a linguistic background and education, so having a clear easy video to show them is amazingly helpful!
Spot on! Great to finally see a video on my own field of study and to get the reassurance that other videos are likely as well-researched as this one is!
In my bipolar disorder, one of the classic symptoms (confirmed by my psychiatrist) is "losing my words." I'll be in a conversation explaining something, then I'll start doing the "tip of the tongue" thing with every word, even with regular words as much as specialized lingo and jargon. But especially jargon. Bipolar brains are shown to have a different MRI than "normies." I saw two MRI's side by side in a book, one bipolar and the other normal. I couldn't tell a difference, but the text said a bipolar brain gets less oxygen than a normal brain. Who knows? There needs to be more research to see. But this losing my words thing needs to be studied much more, along with "default." In "default," I will make a plan with someone, say dinner at Calhoun's at 8 on Friday. Later we both agree that another plan is better, and plan for dinner and a movie starting with the movie at the Village 8 at 6 pm and dinner at Panera Bread afterward. I'll go to dinner at Calhoun's at 8 pm and wonder where my date is. My date will already be at Village 8,maybe missed a movie, then gone home frustrated because I didn't show up. Later there would be the inevitable argument where my date would say the second plan was right and I'd say the first was right. I could swear up and down that the first one was firm, and the second one had never been made. Not that I could remember that we did make a different plan, but that the first one was absolutely what we planned. Only after intense remembering (and I do mean *intense!* would I remember that oh, yeah (pained, humiliated face), we did make that second plan. This has happened at work, on meetings and dates, in many instances. Because of this, I rely on my phone calendar a lot, and for very important appointments, I'll ask over and over to make sure I have it straight. When I've defaulted and come early, all that did was inconvenience me, and I'll make sure I get it right with my reminding techniques. But when the appointment is moved up, I can be sunk by that. But I keep trying. That's all I can do at this time. I hope someone can come up with something that will allow me to overcome these important issues. If not for me then for the many people who have bipolar, especially the 30-somethings and younger.
That’s so amazing I learn French and I always wonder if it sits in a seperate section it honestly feels like it does. I’m so sorry for your husbands stroke though such sad stuff.
I am surprised and touched by the many earlier commenters who have language or speech impairments. They have been bravely honest about things which I take for granted, and arrogantly pride myself on. I should be more grateful that I was born with such a marvellous skill through no effort of my own.
Thank you so much! Though I already learnt about this during my bachelor studies when I was studying psycholinguistics, I had recently attended another course at a new university where even the professor told us about how language production and comprehension resides in these areas, without differentiating these statements at all. Almost everything he said was vastly messed up and debatable but I already started to think that I had remembered things wrong. Thanks for clearing it up again.
2:52 me - after mild traumatic brain damage where i lost consciousness for 30 seconds and sustained a depressed skull fracture on my right-side, temporal cranium, I returned to school with no medical inspection, and suffered the loss of speech and comprehension, aside from the excruciating migraines that frequently attacked. that was the worst pain i've ever been in; it was like my brain was on fire, and I had to concentrate my mind on dissociating from the pain. It was horrible. It was decades later until I could feel comfortable speaking coherently, before which people considered me merely "shy". Nah, it was just hard to speak.
You should definately make a video on APD (Auditory Processing Disorder). It is a disorder affecting mostly children and elders, causing learning disabilities, and related to autism and ADHD. It affects processing of sound on a sensory level and disrupts speech processing in challeging environments, such as high levels of noise, or reverberation. I could help you pointing on certain pieces of current research papers.
One of my parents' neighbours (now sadly passed away) had a series of strokes some time ago, and it severely affected his ability to communicate. He could easily understand speech and knew what sentences he wanted to say, but found it almost impossible to vocalise any word he wanted to say, so he'd often say gibberish peppered with lots of loud profanity and "I love you" (completely without context). It was very sad to see him struggle so much. I always wondered what must've happened to his brain to make him that way, so I'm really glad I stumbled on this video.
The fact that he kept the ability to say I love you is amazing. They are some key words there. They must have had so many important connections that it didn’t entirely get it. But it’s truely sad to see human suffering. I believe our one true hope is Jesus.
With current research pointing to the existence of a number of areas of the brain that are concerned with language processing come recent studies indicating that dyslexia is caused by mis-timing of signals between some of those areas. It also points out that we're actually gathering words and prepping sentences in our minds microseconds before we actually have to ask someone to mass the pilk.
I'd be interested in a vid on that in general, but particularly on how it differs in neurotypical people, who have brains that reward them for social interactions, and a-typicals, who don't get that, or who get that reward-rush from task completion.
Dang. This was quite interesting, but I was hoping for more insight into what I call my, "bad English" moments. Every now and again, I simply lose my ability to understand English (my mother tongue). I still recognize that the person is speaking English, and I might catch a word or two, but generally I need to get the person to repeat themselves, sometimes a few times, before I can understand them. It's super frustrating.
My uncle had a stroke last year and is going to therapy to speak properly again. He always spoke quickly and that hasn't changed, but now he says approximations of what he's trying to say. "Do you want us to grab your keys for you?" "Very much, yes, yes." "What did you do at your old job?" "Cars. Money with cars." (selling cars) The nice thing is that he hates being treated like a child and once we understood it was just his speech and a few other small things, we were able to communicate more effectively without making him feel coddled.
I did a study for a local university because I had aphasia after I woke up from a coma (I couldn’t speak for a while, but I understood everything said to me).
So you could't speak for a while, but during that time could you write or type comprehensibly? And did they or you learn anything from the study? And how did you eventually recover?
Linden Bree I could read, but I didn’t have control over my hands well enough to tie my own shoes, let alone write or type. I recovered the ability to talk about a year before they did the study. I’m not sure if they learned anything from the study, but they asked if I was really smart before I developed aphasia, and I was like, “yeah...” Sorry, I feel like it’s okay to humble-brag here...
@@TBIhope "Were you really smart?" that's... a vague question for scientists to ask xD Do you think you got your smartness back? And I assume by smart you mean IQ? What kind of differences do you notice about yourself now compared to before the coma? And yeah, I think humble bragging is fine. I'm bombarding you with questions after all, hopefully you don't mind? If you do though, it's fine, you don't have to answer anything you don't want to. I'm just really curious about stuff like this. Also, did you learn to talk again from speech therapy?
Woohoo! I've been waiting for a video like this! I seem to require more effort than others to interpret the sounds someone is making and comprehend the words, and also make sentences and retrieve words from my memory. When im tired it's super hard to speak coherently. Now i have a name of something to look into. :D
What I'd like to know is why you engage in so much arm waving when you speak. Where does that come from? Your arm waving and speech appear to be in sync, so their has to be somesort of connection. I'd be interested to know if putting your hands in your pockets would create a speech impediment for you.
2:16 Little Known Fact: That second patient, the one who presented with similar symptoms as did Tan, was mockingly called Bam, for all of the same reasons. And the damage to Bam's language center had been caused when Bam had accidentally hit himself in the side of his head with a wooden club. 🤔
I get migraine auras without headaches. At the tail end, there's usually another effect (tingling, numbness, etc). A few times though, it has messed with my ability to write and read. I temporarily forgot how to write words (for instance, 'writing' became 'switing') and reading comprehension was greatly impaired - I could read but not put the meaning to the words I was reading. I was however able to talk and understand other people talk perfectly fine. Would love to know what area the cortical spreading depression reaches for that to happen, there's not much info on these secondary effects. I found it very interesting because my vocal language understanding was unaffected, but reading and writing was very impaired, seeming to indicate those are processed differently.
If you're interested in a more differenciated model of the isolatable "modules" of language processing obtained according to aphasia case studies, have a look at Ellis & Young (1988)'s "Human Cognitive Neuropsychology".
I hope they update their courses in cognitive and neuropsychology in Psychology degree ... I used to study this way when I was in psychology in Paris and it was a bit off ...
What if I have trouble forming words but can with enough effort and yet still understand all syntax, grammar and spelling? What type of aphasia would that be called? Are there even names for different types of aphasia?
Ronelia Delgrange Yes, there are. Like there is anominal aphasia when people can’t recall the particular word they want, like they can’t recall bedroom, but have to beat around the bush eg they might say the place where I sleep instead of bedroom
@@bennaustin6632 ooh. I have to do that all the time. The other day, I couldn't remember the word 'scale', so i had to say, "the thing you stand on to know your weight."
Can you please associate the current physiological brain loci you mentioned with the FOXP2 gene aphasias? How does an extreme FOXP2 mutation - such as in the KE family - alter the physical brain? or does it?
I have an issue that I’ve always called an aphasia, but I don’t know what it really is. I can’t think of the right words when speaking. And it seems to only be nouns. I’ve learned to just say “noun” and move on, because if I waited for the word to come, we’d be there all day. It seems to be hereditary., as most people on my mom’s side of the family have similar struggles.
Something like that I guess. I haven’t really looked into it yet. I just tell people that my brain is like a computer with a big hard drive but not enough RAM.
Tammy McCaslin lately i’ve had to search google for synonyms of words very frequently to finish writing my thoughts... sometimes i wonder if having my socialization ratio be too online and not enough offline is ruining my language skills
In my brain, at least, the pathways for writing and speaking are different. I rarely have trouble finding words when I’m writing. Only when I’m speaking.
Why is it that singing seems to use other language centers? I've read that people with stuttering issues can don't stutter when singing or that some people who have strokes on their left side and have speech issues can still sing. What's going on in the brain?
huh, so there is precedent for the two character duo where one speaks gibberish/random noises, and then number 2 is the only person that can understand the first.
I tend to speak gibberish when I'm tired or getting a migraine. I mix words, syntax and grammar from different languages that I speak, plus I mix up the order of syllables or letters in words. Takes me time to realise why people give me funny looks. Migraine pills take away the pain but leave the gibberish-speaking there
*_...stranger about this subject, is the notion that stereotyped 'language functions' are used to describe near-continuous-masses-of-neural-nets-using-100's-of-neurotransmitters-all-contributing-to-the-processation…_*
So if people will damage to Wernicke's area can understand language but can't speak coherent sentences, if you recorded what they said and played it back to them would they understand it?
I doubt it. My guess is that they would perceive nonsense, but if they tried to replicate that nonsense in speech or writing it would come out as a different nonsense. I don't think the problem is that they consistently misperceive language in such a way that they could understand language perfectly if it was converted to their misperceived form; rather I'm assuming that they misperceive language regardless of its form.
Is there correlation between being attractive and And having mental disorders By way Of a strong immune system That accidentally attacks the wrong Part of the body And/or brain?
If you understand That cemetry facial cemetry Is one factor of what's considered attractiveness Take that 1 step further an devide by gender preference In man You're usually talking about Height Muscle mass And facial cemetry And in women You're talking mostly about the hip to waist ratio Which is a function Of hormone regulation during development Facial symmetry Then he put those factors together Back across gender lines And you come up with Hormone Regulation Accounting for 2/3 Reproductive Success The Overproduction Of hormones Testosterone in men Estrogen in women Mimic the pros Muscle mass And hip to waist ratio And chemical signs of fertility But also I have tended it sees towards Instability Do doesn't lack of chemical regulation And since the immune system tends to attack The wrong part Of the body When you have a miscommunication between the hormone excretion ,receptor or Microbe biome Issues So if you have an overproduction Of antibodies with a lack of detection You can do a lot of damage and one fever Note It's more complicated than that
I wonder if being “tone-deaf” is related to these areas of the brain, as well. We all know someone who thinks they can sing on key, but everyone else knows they’re off key.
Bilingual! Я говорю русскую, but not that well; it will soon be my third language though. My second language is English and my mother tongue is Dhivehi.
As with all Sci Show vids, I thought this was great, easily comprehensible and worthwhile watching. My question is: why are people so sh*t at explaining things with an apparent aphasia to even realise just how sh*t of a job of explaining things they are doing? This is fine if it doesn't matter really if people should be interested or not in understanding what is being explained. But if it is about an issue that is really important - like the survival of a political party in the UK for example that is suppose to be representing workers interests - then it puts a depressing onus on those trying to comprehend any explanations to effectively take over the job of the person so poorly explaining... A bit of a task when having to understand from scratch and/or if they are sceptical in the first place. Like "I have no interest in what you are saying, but despite not having your expertise I spent a whole week on google trying to understand so I could explain it to your audiance because I felt so bad for you...."
I really like his abundant gestures. They pretty much all relate to what he is saying and only a small portion are purely emphasis. I often rely on people's gestures to process all they are saying cos i think understanding spoken words takes more effort for me than other people (maybe some form of aphasia).
As someone with a blocking stutter, I'd love for more videos on speech and speech impediments. It's hard to explain it to someone when you cant really talk.
don't matter you’d have to hand people a giant essay, speech is so intricate and detailed so it needs more attention than a small card unfortunately
Aaah that's so interesting. We didn't even learn that in medical school! But that makes so much sense as the Wernicke area is interconnected with the auditorial cortex. I couldn't imagine talking and being so desperate why no one seems to understand what you are saying. It's like a horror movie.
I imagine one could write a very interesting book using that premise
If you didn't learn this in medical school, then your neurology professors weren't very good teachers.
Then just write on paper
Ikajo there was a patient in the tv series House that has this condition. He was a writer/author but after hitting his head quite hard, he spoke in weird financial terms that nobody quite understood
@guybobjoe I mean, in my country we were taught this in med school, so thats just a shitty excuse.
When I was younger I would occasionally speak absolute nonsense when getting up early in the morning. I remember waking up, walking into the living room, my dad was getting ready for the day and asked if I was almost ready, now I thought I was responding with "yeah I just gotta go to the bathroom." But my dad just stared at me. I'm not sure exactly what came out as my words weren't slurred and I thought I had pronounced everything fine. But he swears that I sounded like I was speaking spanish.
prolly just mis heard you
That's a good opinion. But through all the times this has happened I've been able to get a little insight. I've also been recorded in my waking moments and I've done it on film. It's like my words get switched around and they all get slurred heavily.
When I was 18, one day during lunch, I lost the feeling in my left hand. Then my left foot. Then my speech started getting worse. I couldn’t get words out, and was fully aware that I couldn’t. Went to the ER. Told the doctor I think I’m having a stroke. He smirked and said “You’re not having a stroke,”
Until I told him the symptoms. By this time I had a headache on the right side of my head. He was still skeptical because he would expect that a stroke would have to be on the left side of my head in order to impact language. He asked if I was left handed. I nodded yes. That’s when he ordered a CT scan. I guess the speech center can be reversed in some left handed people? Anyway, yes. I was having a stroke. It turned out to be caused by a brain tumor. An astrocytoma. I had brain surgery (right parietal craniotomy) 2 days later. It took a year and a half for my speech to be at about 90%. 5 years to be at about 95% percent. About 10 years after the surgery to be at about 99%. But even longer to be able to mentally heal from the soul-crushing event to carry on a conversation with confidence. The feeling in my left foot fully returned. My left hand is still numb.
Did you wear Bluetooths?
@@SamanthaSweetAnne
No.
@@se777en73120 okay good because cell phones and AirPods cause that too.
@@SamanthaSweetAnne
There’s no evidence to support that. And my brain tumor experience happened before a cellphone had ever entered my house. And before Bluetooth existed.
You’re a stroke survivor and a fighter well done. 👊
And thank-you for sharing your story. That is heaps interesting.
May the lord (Jesus) use your story and journey to help others. He was protecting you that day. And your recovery is outstanding.
On a related note, I often hear people on the topic of bilingualism talk about thinking in a specific language, but I don't think that's the best way to describe it. We do have an internal monologue, and that can be in one language or another, or multiple at once, but our thoughts are something different. Our thoughts exist independent of language. Language is just one of the tools we use to communicate, organize, and process those thoughts. This is why you can have a "tip of the tongue" moment. You have a thought, but you're struggling to find the word for that thought. The thought exists independent of your ability to communicate it.
Language is an extremely useful tool, but sometimes it's worth remembering that there's a whole lot that our brains are capable of independent of language. You can think thoughts that you have no words for.
I speak 3 languages (all quite different from each other), and I can confirm this. If I switch enough between them, I start having "wordless thoughts." Like, the idea sits in my brain, and I have to semi-concsiously choose in which language to articulate the thought.
I work as a speech and language pathologist at a hospital, mainly in the stroke ward where I among other things diagnose aphasia. You'd me amazed how few textbook examples (even by modern research) of aphasias, in corellation to lesion sites, that we see. The brain is glorious, mysterious and scary all at the same time. 🤷♂️
I'm an SLP, too. I work with preschoolers, but this stuff has always fascinated me.
As I have epilepsy, i found out that I have bilateral speech centers (ie: two), the left one has a lesion on it (just some extra cells), so the position is in Wernieke's area behind my left ear.
It is interesting to note that it took some time for my language skills to develop and my ability read/write (Came to me with a lot of practice by the time I was 13 years old).
I am also dyslexic, which might have something to do with the two speech centers interferring with each other.
Glad you are "caught up", good work!
Thank you for this episode! I have a degree in Linguistics, and this was one of my favourite areas of study- especially seeing videos of cases of Broca's aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia. But trying to explain these to my friends and family can be difficult without them having a linguistic background and education, so having a clear easy video to show them is amazingly helpful!
pikachu: pika pikaaa!!!
tan: tan taaan!!!!
Tem: HOI!
Groot: I am Groot!
Librarian: Ook
ぴかびか、ピカチュウ！
That just tells me that Pokemon have brain damage
Spot on! Great to finally see a video on my own field of study and to get the reassurance that other videos are likely as well-researched as this one is!
Tan is like a real life Groot. He just doesn’t have a raccoon who understands him :(
Also all from asgard that atteneded school
He has language issues, he's not a _vegetable._
In my bipolar disorder, one of the classic symptoms (confirmed by my psychiatrist) is "losing my words." I'll be in a conversation explaining something, then I'll start doing the "tip of the tongue" thing with every word, even with regular words as much as specialized lingo and jargon. But especially jargon.
Bipolar brains are shown to have a different MRI than "normies." I saw two MRI's side by side in a book, one bipolar and the other normal. I couldn't tell a difference, but the text said a bipolar brain gets less oxygen than a normal brain. Who knows? There needs to be more research to see.
But this losing my words thing needs to be studied much more, along with "default."
In "default," I will make a plan with someone, say dinner at Calhoun's at 8 on Friday. Later we both agree that another plan is better, and plan for dinner and a movie starting with the movie at the Village 8 at 6 pm and dinner at Panera Bread afterward.
I'll go to dinner at Calhoun's at 8 pm and wonder where my date is. My date will already be at Village 8,maybe missed a movie, then gone home frustrated because I didn't show up.
Later there would be the inevitable argument where my date would say the second plan was right and I'd say the first was right. I could swear up and down that the first one was firm, and the second one had never been made. Not that I could remember that we did make a different plan, but that the first one was absolutely what we planned.
Only after intense remembering (and I do mean *intense!* would I remember that oh, yeah (pained, humiliated face), we did make that second plan. This has happened at work, on meetings and dates, in many instances.
Because of this, I rely on my phone calendar a lot, and for very important appointments, I'll ask over and over to make sure I have it straight. When I've defaulted and come early, all that did was inconvenience me, and I'll make sure I get it right with my reminding techniques. But when the appointment is moved up, I can be sunk by that. But I keep trying. That's all I can do at this time. I hope someone can come up with something that will allow me to overcome these important issues. If not for me then for the many people who have bipolar, especially the 30-somethings and younger.
There’s bound to be a joke about pokemon character speeches in here somewhere
Is this the case for just spoken language or does the same thing apply for sign language as well?
After a very mild stroke,my husband"lost"his English.He didn't lost his French,who was his first foreign language to learn.English was his second.....
Did he ever recover his English?
That’s so amazing I learn French and I always wonder if it sits in a seperate section it honestly feels like it does.
I’m so sorry for your husbands stroke though such sad stuff.
I am surprised and touched by the many earlier commenters who have language or speech impairments. They have been bravely honest about things which I take for granted, and arrogantly pride myself on. I should be more grateful that I was born with such a marvellous skill through no effort of my own.
Hank, first thing in the morning I watch you and love how you ruin my day with knowledge.
Well, at least no one else can ruin your day now 🤔🤔🤔
Thank you so much! Though I already learnt about this during my bachelor studies when I was studying psycholinguistics, I had recently attended another course at a new university where even the professor told us about how language production and comprehension resides in these areas, without differentiating these statements at all. Almost everything he said was vastly messed up and debatable but I already started to think that I had remembered things wrong. Thanks for clearing it up again.
2:52 me - after mild traumatic brain damage where i lost consciousness for 30 seconds and sustained a depressed skull fracture on my right-side, temporal cranium, I returned to school with no medical inspection, and suffered the loss of speech and comprehension, aside from the excruciating migraines that frequently attacked. that was the worst pain i've ever been in; it was like my brain was on fire, and I had to concentrate my mind on dissociating from the pain. It was horrible. It was decades later until I could feel comfortable speaking coherently, before which people considered me merely "shy". Nah, it was just hard to speak.
You should definately make a video on APD (Auditory Processing Disorder). It is a disorder affecting mostly children and elders, causing learning disabilities, and related to autism and ADHD. It affects processing of sound on a sensory level and disrupts speech processing in challeging environments, such as high levels of noise, or reverberation. I could help you pointing on certain pieces of current research papers.
Every now and then, I'll have a word that I know how it should sound, but can't get my mouth to work right to say it right.
You should do a video on Auditory Processing Disorder because not many people know about it and/or understand it too well. (I have it)
Can you believe that Hank Green is nearly 40 years old? FORTY THIS MAY!!
So if Hodor came from "Hold the door", where did Tan Tan come from?
Have you seen the cat version with let me out, meow!
Hodor is a fictional character. "Tan" is just a simple and easy to pronounce word.
One of my parents' neighbours (now sadly passed away) had a series of strokes some time ago, and it severely affected his ability to communicate. He could easily understand speech and knew what sentences he wanted to say, but found it almost impossible to vocalise any word he wanted to say, so he'd often say gibberish peppered with lots of loud profanity and "I love you" (completely without context). It was very sad to see him struggle so much. I always wondered what must've happened to his brain to make him that way, so I'm really glad I stumbled on this video.
The fact that he kept the ability to say I love you is amazing. They are some key words there. They must have had so many important connections that it didn’t entirely get it.
But it’s truely sad to see human suffering.
I believe our one true hope is Jesus.
With current research pointing to the existence of a number of areas of the brain that are concerned with language processing come recent studies indicating that dyslexia is caused by mis-timing of signals between some of those areas. It also points out that we're actually gathering words and prepping sentences in our minds microseconds before we actually have to ask someone to mass the pilk.
Can you do video on reward circuit of the brain or "reward system"?
I'd be interested in a vid on that in general, but particularly on how it differs in neurotypical people, who have brains that reward them for social interactions, and a-typicals, who don't get that, or who get that reward-rush from task completion.
Dang. This was quite interesting, but I was hoping for more insight into what I call my, "bad English" moments. Every now and again, I simply lose my ability to understand English (my mother tongue). I still recognize that the person is speaking English, and I might catch a word or two, but generally I need to get the person to repeat themselves, sometimes a few times, before I can understand them. It's super frustrating.
Might wanna hit up your doctor, friend!
@@Spikeygal I have seen many doctors about this. Even got an MRI. No one seems to know.
Maybe something related to Auditory Processing Disorder?
@@iprobablyforgotsomething I've had my hearing tested, and it's quite good
Auditory processing is different from hearing. Your ear might pick up the sounds perfectly, but your brain struggles to make sense of it.
I have trouble reading out loud from a book to people.. i can't articulate words on the page and it's exhausting
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My uncle had a stroke last year and is going to therapy to speak properly again. He always spoke quickly and that hasn't changed, but now he says approximations of what he's trying to say.
"Do you want us to grab your keys for you?" "Very much, yes, yes."
"What did you do at your old job?" "Cars. Money with cars." (selling cars)
The nice thing is that he hates being treated like a child and once we understood it was just his speech and a few other small things, we were able to communicate more effectively without making him feel coddled.
I did a study for a local university because I had aphasia after I woke up from a coma (I couldn’t speak for a while, but I understood everything said to me).
So you could't speak for a while, but during that time could you write or type comprehensibly?
And did they or you learn anything from the study? And how did you eventually recover?
I'd also like answers for Linden's questions.
Linden Bree I could read, but I didn’t have control over my hands well enough to tie my own shoes, let alone write or type.
I recovered the ability to talk about a year before they did the study. I’m not sure if they learned anything from the study, but they asked if I was really smart before I developed aphasia, and I was like, “yeah...”
Sorry, I feel like it’s okay to humble-brag here...
Jackson Percy haha you’re almost the kid who went to Camp Half-Blood (Percy Jackson).
@@TBIhope "Were you really smart?" that's... a vague question for scientists to ask xD
Do you think you got your smartness back? And I assume by smart you mean IQ? What kind of differences do you notice about yourself now compared to before the coma?
And yeah, I think humble bragging is fine. I'm bombarding you with questions after all, hopefully you don't mind? If you do though, it's fine, you don't have to answer anything you don't want to. I'm just really curious about stuff like this. Also, did you learn to talk again from speech therapy?
Woohoo! I've been waiting for a video like this!
I seem to require more effort than others to interpret the sounds someone is making and comprehend the words, and also make sentences and retrieve words from my memory. When im tired it's super hard to speak coherently.
Now i have a name of something to look into. :D
TheGinga Your might be anomic aphasia also known as anomia, I’ve had it since I was a child. Look for the word selection type.
Can you do a video explaining the "big five" personality traits? And what testing for them basically gets you?
They made one on personality test 2 years ago
What I'd like to know is why you engage in so much arm waving when you speak. Where does that come from? Your arm waving and speech appear to be in sync, so their has to be somesort of connection. I'd be interested to know if putting your hands in your pockets would create a speech impediment for you.
2:16 Little Known Fact: That second patient, the one who presented with similar symptoms as did Tan, was mockingly called Bam, for all of the same reasons. And the damage to Bam's language center had been caused when Bam had accidentally hit himself in the side of his head with a wooden club.
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Pobody's Nerfect!
I get migraine auras without headaches. At the tail end, there's usually another effect (tingling, numbness, etc). A few times though, it has messed with my ability to write and read. I temporarily forgot how to write words (for instance, 'writing' became 'switing') and reading comprehension was greatly impaired - I could read but not put the meaning to the words I was reading. I was however able to talk and understand other people talk perfectly fine. Would love to know what area the cortical spreading depression reaches for that to happen, there's not much info on these secondary effects.
I found it very interesting because my vocal language understanding was unaffected, but reading and writing was very impaired, seeming to indicate those are processed differently.
If you're interested in a more differenciated model of the isolatable "modules" of language processing obtained according to aphasia case studies, have a look at Ellis & Young (1988)'s "Human Cognitive Neuropsychology".
It's great to see you again 😇 I used to enjoy watching your psychology videos on crash course
I hope they update their courses in cognitive and neuropsychology in Psychology degree ... I used to study this way when I was in psychology in Paris and it was a bit off ...
What if I have trouble forming words but can with enough effort and yet still understand all syntax, grammar and spelling?
What type of aphasia would that be called?
Are there even names for different types of aphasia?
Ronelia Delgrange Yes, there are. Like there is anominal aphasia when people can’t recall the particular word they want, like they can’t recall bedroom, but have to beat around the bush eg they might say the place where I sleep instead of bedroom
@@bennaustin6632 ooh. I have to do that all the time. The other day, I couldn't remember the word 'scale', so i had to say, "the thing you stand on to know your weight."
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Tumblr quote; maybe I need to use the sleep
Brain? What is Brain?
sooo i have a question, Is this the are responsible of our internal voice in our head when we think?
There have been a lot of findings on fascia and it would be great if you did a video on that (as it also pertains to the mind, introception, etc)
Hi! Loved this video, thank you! Could you make one on written music and the brain?
Can you please associate the current physiological brain loci you mentioned with the FOXP2 gene aphasias? How does an extreme FOXP2 mutation - such as in the KE family - alter the physical brain? or does it?
Can u do a video in stammering please
Did the people who were speaking/hearing gibberish understand written stuff? Or did that get mixed up too?
I have an issue that I’ve always called an aphasia, but I don’t know what it really is. I can’t think of the right words when speaking. And it seems to only be nouns. I’ve learned to just say “noun” and move on, because if I waited for the word to come, we’d be there all day. It seems to be hereditary., as most people on my mom’s side of the family have similar struggles.
Tammy McCaslin wow!!! some kind of word retrieval disorder?
Something like that I guess. I haven’t really looked into it yet. I just tell people that my brain is like a computer with a big hard drive but not enough RAM.
Tammy McCaslin lately i’ve had to search google for synonyms of words very frequently to finish writing my thoughts... sometimes i wonder if having my socialization ratio be too online and not enough offline is ruining my language skills
In my brain, at least, the pathways for writing and speaking are different. I rarely have trouble finding words when I’m writing. Only when I’m speaking.
What happens if you try to sing the sentence? Are you able to retrieve the word while walking backwards?
Why is it that singing seems to use other language centers? I've read that people with stuttering issues can don't stutter when singing or that some people who have strokes on their left side and have speech issues can still sing. What's going on in the brain?
Also, could you expand on aphasias?
i love video!! psycholinguistics is very very interesting and it's crucial to child development!! nice one!!
Does this apply to all language or just spoken/written language? Does sign language use the same parts of the brain?
5:15 E. Henry Thripshaw's Disease.
So does this include Spoonerisms and malapropisms?
You know, we were just talking about these areas in my psych class yesterday, weird
Would be curious how communications between different regions are accomplished.
So.. Tan broke his Broca.
huh, so there is precedent for the two character duo where one speaks gibberish/random noises, and then number 2 is the only person that can understand the first.
Family members often understand schizoid personality disorder
It's like the DS9 episode "Babel".
1:36 ...and editor and president of Muttonchop Enthusiast Monthly.
I tend to speak gibberish when I'm tired or getting a migraine. I mix words, syntax and grammar from different languages that I speak, plus I mix up the order of syllables or letters in words. Takes me time to realise why people give me funny looks. Migraine pills take away the pain but leave the gibberish-speaking there
Nice!
*_...stranger about this subject, is the notion that stereotyped 'language functions' are used to describe near-continuous-masses-of-neural-nets-using-100's-of-neurotransmitters-all-contributing-to-the-processation…_*
Hank, you should do an episode about the history of phrenology and why it is dumb.
meaning grades into articulation and articulation grades into meaning
*Vernicke's area*
So if people will damage to Wernicke's area can understand language but can't speak coherent sentences, if you recorded what they said and played it back to them would they understand it?
I doubt it. My guess is that they would perceive nonsense, but if they tried to replicate that nonsense in speech or writing it would come out as a different nonsense. I don't think the problem is that they consistently misperceive language in such a way that they could understand language perfectly if it was converted to their misperceived form; rather I'm assuming that they misperceive language regardless of its form.
Is there correlation between being attractive and And having mental disorders By way Of a strong immune system That accidentally attacks the wrong Part of the body And/or brain?
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If you understand That cemetry facial cemetry Is one factor of what's considered attractiveness Take that 1 step further an devide by gender preference In man You're usually talking about Height Muscle mass And facial cemetry And in women You're talking mostly about the hip to waist ratio Which is a function Of hormone regulation during development Facial symmetry
Then he put those factors together Back across gender lines And you come up with Hormone Regulation
Accounting for 2/3 Reproductive Success
The Overproduction Of hormones Testosterone in men Estrogen in women Mimic the pros Muscle mass And hip to waist ratio And chemical signs of fertility But also I have tended it sees towards Instability Do doesn't lack of chemical regulation
And since the immune system tends to attack The wrong part Of the body When you have a miscommunication between the hormone excretion ,receptor or Microbe biome Issues
So if you have an overproduction Of antibodies with a lack of detection You can do a lot of damage and one fever
Note It's more complicated than that
We can always count on kids to make us feel like complete idiots.
I wonder if being “tone-deaf” is related to these areas of the brain, as well. We all know someone who thinks they can sing on key, but everyone else knows they’re off key.
I would like to know how left handed brains differs from rgiht handed, i'm a leftie btw
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5:05 my dear / mind you
I am TAN. I AM TAN. I AM TAN. i aM Tan....Groot's long lost uncle
I learned all of this in a basic university class on neuro- and patholinguistics in 2012. It is in the textbooks we used.
Also, neuroplasticity.
how did he get access to the new brain ? 2:16
I don't comprehend instructions, period.
That's all fun and games *BUT* is it me or did Hank get a haircut? 🤔
Now now... of course hank didn't get a haircut. He got them all cut!
Hank did, but I'll need to see an old and a new pic of you to know if it's you (who got a haircut).
@@christelheadington1136 you got me there 😂
Did I just hear Hank has a son? 😮
Athena Tan Yi Min I had to take a double take
I was also thinking first time I'd heard that!! He's going to be such a know-it-all. In a good way :D
He's had one for I think at least 2 years now?
Yup. Hence the "dad" jokes.
¿Hay bilingües or multilinguals здесь? 🤔
Bilingual! Я говорю русскую, but not that well; it will soon be my third language though. My second language is English and my mother tongue is Dhivehi.
@@larsswig912 привет! Hola. Hi! 😊 I like to study language. Do you use the app HelloTalk?
Well......CAN you mass me the pilk? I have to know.
Oh no this shirt is messing with my OCD! I want it!
Thanks for that. :l
*I am Groot*
Tan tan.
I am Groot.
Tan tan.
I am Groot.
Tan tan.
I am Groot.
I thought it was /tɑ̃/.
僕は日本語が大好きです、日本語は学び。
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all my teachers have said *W*ernicke, not *V*ernicke, but that actually makes so much sense....brain broken
Lmao he’s German, it should be pronounced like that,, “Ver-nee-keu”
As with all Sci Show vids, I thought this was great, easily comprehensible and worthwhile watching. My question is: why are people so sh*t at explaining things with an apparent aphasia to even realise just how sh*t of a job of explaining things they are doing? This is fine if it doesn't matter really if people should be interested or not in understanding what is being explained. But if it is about an issue that is really important - like the survival of a political party in the UK for example that is suppose to be representing workers interests - then it puts a depressing onus on those trying to comprehend any explanations to effectively take over the job of the person so poorly explaining... A bit of a task when having to understand from scratch and/or if they are sceptical in the first place. Like "I have no interest in what you are saying, but despite not having your expertise I spent a whole week on google trying to understand so I could explain it to your audiance because I felt so bad for you...."
great vid, learn sign language if you're going to flail around like that.
you tell him girl
I really like his abundant gestures. They pretty much all relate to what he is saying and only a small portion are purely emphasis. I often rely on people's gestures to process all they are saying cos i think understanding spoken words takes more effort for me than other people (maybe some form of aphasia).