For 10 points, name this disorder of the brain that diminishes one's capacity to produce or comprehend language.
Henri Bergson used the existence of this disorder as evidence that the mind is independent of the body in his work Matter and Memory. The conduction type of this disorder is thought to be caused by damage to the arcuate fasciculus. One form of treatment for this disorder involves tapping the patient's left hand to simulate a metronome and the process of inner rehearsal. That technique, melodic intonation therapy, works because patients are able to associate (*) words with certain pitches. One of the first patients with this disorder to be studied was known as Tan. The receptive, or fluent, type of this disorder can cause problems with comprehension, while its expressive, or non-fluent, type yields deficits in speech production; those two types are sometimes named after Wernicke and Broca. For 10 points, name this disorder of the brain that diminishes one's capacity to produce or comprehend language.
Henri Bergson used the existence of this disorder as evidence that the mind is independent of the body in his work Matter and Memory.
aphasia