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 brocas reigon to talk through music because the right brocas is good at detecting melodies.