PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Manual Communication, Home Sign, Spoken Language
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Experiments research question, participants, methodology, measure, pattern of results, significance of results. Modalities spoken vocal manual, perceptual-auditory channel dominant modality. Vocal auditory dominant hands free, noise omni-directionality and can be perceived by listener without needing the focus, efficiency of system, can be used at night. Do all humans produce the disposition to use the manual-visual. Compared 18 month old and 24 month old hearing children, to what degree that at unfamiliar signal refers to something (word vs. gesture), extent they assume and understand. 4 novel words and gestures, novel word condition shown object they have never seen before and associate it with the novel word, see if they can pick out the object from others so see if they forged the association. Gesture condition, same but instead use a gesture instead of a word, are children good at linking gesture to object as they are for words.
