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The words are all still in there, the door just won't open.
means A loss or impairment of the ability to understand or produce language, usually caused by brain damage or injury, especially to areas controlling speech.
from From Greek 'aphasia,' meaning 'speechlessness' — built from the negating prefix 'a-' ('without') plus 'phasis' ('speech, utterance'), itself from 'phanai,' 'to speak.' The term was picked up in 19th-century medicine as doctors began mapping language to specific regions of the brain, naming the breakdown they saw in patients who understood the world perfectly but couldn't summon the words for it.
- not intelligence
- Broca's patients can still solve logic puzzles fine
- location matters
- Broca's area breaks output, Wernicke's breaks comprehension
- famous case
- Patient Tan could only say the word tan
- music exception
- Singing often survives even when speech does not