PSYC59H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parietal Lobe, Frontal Lobe, Motor System
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Does semantic influence processing and perception of words: 39;40. You press a button is it an s or sh, and a lot of activation is going on. If you have the word walker in mind, i have to take it apart and piece it accordingly: 76:00. Think of this involving a motor system, we rely on the motor system of what it means to be a verb. In the data if you lesion the action area, nouns are hurt a lot less. When you lesion the visual area, you can"t see the verb, you can see the object, for a verb to take on visual representation you need to give me a noun to go with it. You modify visual representation of a dog for example to show that the dog is running (e. g. verb): interestingly, patient literature suggests there is this really strong double-dissociations.
