michael sylvester wrote:
>
> Just curious as to what speech area is dominant during word salad 
> speech,Broca or Wernicke?

My recollection is that it is caused by a working Broca's area, but a 
dysfunctional Wernicke.
> And since word salad has some similarity to the talking-in-tongues of 
> Holly Rollers,
> maybe Ed and Ken teaching in Deliverance territory of Appalachian 
> State can share some insight on this.

Various neuroscientists have speculated that "speaking in tongues" is 
the effect of a temporal lobe seizure.

Regards,
Chris
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