PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Receptive Aphasia, Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: Steve Joordens

Document Summary

Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour. Languages -> flexible systems that use symbols to express many meanings. Most species can communicate with one another, but doesn"t mean that they have language. Language plays a crucial role in day-to-day communication as well as memory and thought. Enables us to think about complex and abstract issues by encoding them as words and then manipulating the words accordingly (use logic, etc) Ability to engage in verbal behaviour -> human advantage; information sharing. When speaking we produce a series of sounds in a continuous stream, punctuated by pauses and modulated by stress and changes in pitch. We say sentences as a string of sounds, stressing some words, saying some quickly, pausing, changing pitch. Therefore: speech doesn"t come to us as a series of individual words; we extract the words from a stream of speech.