Aphasia, an impairment of the capacity to use language, often occurs when a stroke damages the left half of the brain. Many people with stroke-related aphasia recover at least some capacity to use language within a year. One proposed explanation for such recoveries is that the right side of the brain, which is not usually the major language center, develops its latent language capabilities to compensate for the damage to the left side.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the explanation?
a. In a study of local brain activity in people performing a language task, people with stroke-related aphasia showed higher activity levels in the right half of the brain than people who did not have aphasia
b. a blow to the head injuring the left half of the brain can result in impariment of the capacity to use language indistinguishable from that produced by a stroke
c. among people with stroke-related aphasia, recovering lost capacity to use language does not lead to any impariment of those capacities normally controlled by the right half of the brain.
d. a stroke that damages the left half of the brain often causes physical impairments of the right side of the body that lessen over time
e. studies of numerous people with aphasia have indicated that the function that govern language production and those that govern language comprehension are located in separate areas of the brain.
[spoiler]OA. A.
To me C is better even though C does not help us strengthen the idea that the right side compensates for the left side.
Reason for discounting A: there is no mention that the right side of brain has latent language capabilities to compensate for the damage to the left side. [/spoiler]
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the explanation?
a. In a study of local brain activity in people performing a language task, people with stroke-related aphasia showed higher activity levels in the right half of the brain than people who did not have aphasia
b. a blow to the head injuring the left half of the brain can result in impariment of the capacity to use language indistinguishable from that produced by a stroke
c. among people with stroke-related aphasia, recovering lost capacity to use language does not lead to any impariment of those capacities normally controlled by the right half of the brain.
d. a stroke that damages the left half of the brain often causes physical impairments of the right side of the body that lessen over time
e. studies of numerous people with aphasia have indicated that the function that govern language production and those that govern language comprehension are located in separate areas of the brain.
[spoiler]OA. A.
To me C is better even though C does not help us strengthen the idea that the right side compensates for the left side.
Reason for discounting A: there is no mention that the right side of brain has latent language capabilities to compensate for the damage to the left side. [/spoiler]
