BCS 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Categorical Perception, Aphasia, Phoneme
17 Jul 2018
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Mcgurk effect - phoneme discrimination combination of ba and ga combine together to give the perception of da Visual stream makes a guess about the phoneme. Now, the brain decides how to differentiate these two guesses. Two independent streams (visual and auditory) is combined together by the brain to perceive one thing (da) Messy overlap provokes brain to put together stimuli. Morphed photos of famous people"s faces along a continuum. In these cases, we see them as categorical. We fit them into meaningful distinctions, build categories. The best thing is to explore why it doesn"t work. Small l language: individual, specific language, (ex, english, japanese) Big l language: general, what enables us to communicate, human language as a whole. Broca - essentially was one of the first to describe damage as separating the general faculty of language from the faculty of spoken language (pretty much, split the general language from specific language)
