Following her stroke, Fernando's grandmother could understand what she read or what was being said to her. However, she had great difficulty speaking. Based on these observations, Fernando suspected that his grandmother's stroke had produced damage in:a. Wernicke's area.

b. the corpus callosum.

c. the hippocampus

d. Broca's area.

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Donna Kirk

30 January, 23:02

Following her stroke, Fernando's grandmother could understand what she read or what was being said to her. However, she had great difficulty speaking. Based on these observations, Fernando suspected that his grandmother's stroke had produced damage in:a. Wernicke's area.

b. the corpus callosum.

c. the hippocampus

d. Broca's area.

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Raymond Baird · Answer 1

D. Broca's area.

Explanation:

Broca's area is the part of the brain which takes care of the expressive parts of the language, both in spoken and written form. What this means is that it controls your ability to speak and write, rather than understand what's being said to your or written.

When Fernando's grandma had a stroke, her Broca's area was damaged because she could understand everything, but she couldn't produce language herself (can't speak properly).