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Debunk The 10 % Myth

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Our human brain is the most complex part of the human body. All the parts of the brain work together and each part have its own special properties and function. In my essay I am going to try and debunk the 10% myth by explaining how the brain functions, usage of language and speech, and that just speech production and comprehension uses more than 10% of our brain and also discuss about aphasia and the different types of aphasia we can get. People have a misunderstanding that humans use only 10% of their brain and I hope I will be able to prove this myth wrong by the end of my essay.
The brain can be divided into three main parts: the forebrain, the midbrain, and the hindbrain. It includes the upper part of the spinal cord, the brain stem …show more content…

They have a great difficulty producing words (Pinker, 1994). Comprehension is relatively intact in those patients because these symptoms do not result from motoric problems of the vocal musculature, which is a region in the brain that is responsible for linguistic output (Hintzman, 1997). Patients speak in short, meaningful phrases that are produced with great effort but they are aware of their difficulties and can become easily frustrated by their speaking problems (Dabrowska, 2004). Broca discovered that the brain region causing fluent speech is responsible for linguistic output, and must be located ventrally in the frontal lobe therefore damage to the frontal lobe results in Broca’s aphasia (Hintzman, 1997). Individuals with Broca's aphasia often have right-sided weakness because the frontal lobe is also important for body movement (Cherry, …show more content…

Patients suffering from Wernicke`s aphasia usually speak very fluently, words are pronounced correctly, but they are combined senselessly (Pinker, 1994). Understanding what patients of Wernicke`s aphasia say is difficult, because they substitute a word with a word with similar meaning (Dabrowska, 2004). With Wernicke`s aphasia the comprehension of simple sentences is a very difficult task and the ability to process auditory language input and also written language is impaired(Bickerton, 1990). Individuals with Wernicke's aphasia usually have great difficulty understanding speech and are unaware of their mistakes (Doidge, 2007). Unlike Broca’s aphasia patients have no body weakness because their brain injury is not near the parts of the brain that control

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