Hi Nina, A couple of very rushed answer to your questions--when someone has damage to Wernicke's area, they very often cannot understand their own speech, so they don't comprehend what it is they've said--hence a very garbled form of speech comes forth. In other words, they are fluent, but their speech is meaningless.
If all of the billions of sodium-potassium pumps were not working, the person would be dead. Hope these make sense, gotta rush to class, I'm sure someone else will be able to proved more concise and coherant answers. Carol -----Original Message----- From: Nina Tarner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:23 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences Subject: question from student Hi all, We were discussing Wernicke's Area in Intro. the other night and a student said that if damage to Wernicke's Area meant the person could not understand spoken language did that mean they couldn't even understand themselves? I think they were referring to when a person talks to themslelves in their own mind. Another student question that was asked in which I couldn't answer was what would happen if a person's sodium-potassium pump was not working? What would happen to the positive sodium ions and negative potassium ions? Thanks for any help you can provide, Nina --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
