Communication

Broca's Aphasia

Issue in language production.

Wernicke Aphasia

Issue in understanding language (reading and sign language involved).

Charles Karsnur Mills (1904)

First treatments for aphasia with song; unable to transfer the words in the songs to propositional speech.

Brenda Milner (1962)

Impaired ability to auditorily discriminate between musical excerpts after right hemisphere lobectomy.

Doreen Kimura (1964)

Better left ear melody perception than right ear.

Aaron Smith (1966)

Ability to sing despite complete left hemispherectomy.

Joseph Bogen and Harold Gordon (1971)

Impaired singing when sodium amobarbital was injected into the right carotid artery.

Music Therapy For Aphasia

Using melody to train the right Broca's region to talk through music because the right Broca's is good at