In the late 1800s the neuropathologist Karl Wernicke noted that damage to a specific region, the superior temporal gyrus (STG), also known as Wernicke's area, often resulted in problems comprehending speech a condition he named receptive aphasia.But exactly how the STG perceives speech has proven difficult to discover.
However, although these patients perform within the normal range for comprehension of single words and simple sentences, they do have problems comprehending longer, more complex sentences.
Signs include: Problems comprehending rapid instructions or recalling sequences of commands.
If Lauren's late parents, Frank and Freda, would find little else recognizable in contemporary Russia, surely they would have had no problem comprehending what Mancone characterized as a "hunger there to make it, a hunger for money, for success".
Participants had no problem comprehending the sentences (98% of the comprehension questions were answered correctly).
Human listeners rarely encounter the problem of comprehending speech in reverberant environments.
The problem is comprehended best if we consider cristae with the same side surface area At but different radii a (tube length L is decreased with increasing a to keep At constant).
Although this line of research documented age-related difficulties in warning symbol comprehension and the effectiveness of accident scenarios in addressing those difficulties, it did not address the issue of whether older adults have a specific difficulty with certain types of symbols or whether they have a more generalised problem in comprehending symbols.
Myth: Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience -- a broad and deep capability for comprehending our surroundings.
Gottfredson (1997a) defines intelligence as "a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience".
