NEUR30004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Temporal Lobe, Jargon, Motor Cortex

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Neuroscience
• Course: NEUR30004
• Professor: Peter Kitchener

Document Summary

L6 the blue brain project is a mathematical simulation of neocortical function. We know that types of inputs maps particular set of symbols. More properties of language the initial detection of what is language and what is not lots of auditory input environmental noise that is not language there is early processing that distinguishes. Written language takes years of dedicated work a lot of adults don"t and its hard for them to read and write as adults learning the alphabet and then reading and then writing it is so difficult. 42 sounds in english difficulty is the continuity of sound it is highly ambiguous you have to work out the boundaries and where one word finishes and the other starts. Right side right hemisphere interprets the sound of speech about the non verbal communication all the mushy stuff the tone of the voice.