Online Continuing Education Courses

The Cortex: Communication and Knowledge

• Locate cortical areas responsible for language and describe the relationship between the areas and describe pathways of cortical information processing.
• Define the term “hemisphericity” in relation to hemisphere dominance and itemize various methods to determine hemisphere dominance for functions such as language, handedness, hearing, vision, etc.
• Describe results of “split brain” experiments regarding cortical processing of faces and items in regard to distribution of visual information and speech.
• Draw the relationships between the reception and expression categories in The Schema of Monrad Crone to illustrate the “inputs and outputs” of human interaction.
• Identify the cortical pathways involved from hearing and understanding to formulating speech and speaking, and discuss the relevance of pathway location to other cortical systems.
• Define common terms associated with cortical disorders including aphasia, agraphia and apraxia.