Why do people who lose their memory, still remember how to speak??

Answer 1

Different things are controlled by different parts of the brain.

Answer 2

Memory and langauge involve different regions of the brain. It's rare for a single incident to damage regions involved in both. Damage to the hippocampus prevents the formation of new memories. However, the hippocampus isn't involved in speaking at all, so their speach is still intact. On the other hand, Broca's Area is critical for speech, and people with damage to this area might lose the ability to form grammatically complex sentences. Another area involve in speech is Wernicke's Area, and people with damage to this region will be able to contruct grammatically correct sentences, but their language comprehension is impaired, and the sentences that they make will often be meaningless or nonsensical, despite being grammatically correct.

Basically, we don't remember words and grammar rules the same way we remember events. These are two distinct process that involve separate regions of the brain. Interestingly, we also have separate pathways for remember human faces, and for remembering objects. Certain types of brain damage can cause people to lose the ability to identify objects (if you show them a fork, they won't know what it's called), but they retain the ability to identify faces. Other types of brain damage can cause people to lose only the ability to remember and identify faces, while leaving all other types of learning and memory intact.

If you want to look for more information on this, memory loss is called amnesia, and loss of the ability to speak is call aphasia. If you search for either of those you should find plenty of information.

Answer 3

i have a grandma who has Alzheimer's and she can still speak because she lost her short term memory not her long term and you learn to talk when you are about 3 so she has been talking for 70 years

Answer 4

It all depends of the desease,if it's Alzheimer,the patient will stop speaking and even moving by him or herself,it's very sad.

Answer 5

well as you get older you loose brain cells and you need brain cells in order to remeber and able to do activityies. my grandma has alhimerze she still alittle bit knows who who but she say nasty things and stuff forgets what she did.