PSY 3437 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Parsing, Aphasia, Neurolinguistics
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Reinforcement and conditioning: the more we are spoken to the better we learn. Interactionist approach: language is intertwined with every other cognitive system. Language is like any other sound: we just have the experience and capacity to be very good at it. Language is like any other rule-based skill. Neurolinguistics: need all functions to use language. Brain lateralization: left brain analytical thought. Powerhouse of language resides here: right brain art awareness. A disturbance in the comprehension or production of speech. Broca"s aphasia (inferior frontal: slow, laborious speech. Good content words, poor function words: anomia. Wernicke"s aphasia (left temporal: poor speech comprehension. Can"t recognize words: production of meaningless speech. Can"t convert thoughts into words: poor comprehension of speech. Can"t understand words: fluent and unlabored, unaware of their deficit. Two conversational partners attend to the same object. Adult talking about the subject of their gaze: mutual exclusivity. Objects can have one and only one label: helps make inferences and assign labels.
