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From apatients perspective. It is necessary to understand how you have been effected. A base line test of prior and post language abilities and humor is useful.
Often brain injuries as in my case...
It is used for processing speech & vision, and also leveraged for long term memory (it's kinda important). A good example would be when you see your mom, you know to call her your mom because you...