PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Stroop Effect, Global Aphasia
13 Mar 2019
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Different theories for how the two languages of a bilingual interact. Research examines how bilinguals control languages or keep them separate. Bilinguals use sentences and executive control to determine the language to activate. Bilingualism are able to ignore irrelevant information better than monolinguals due to stronger executive control processes [stroop task] Symbolic : there are units that reference or symbolize something else. We have words in our language that stand for our thoughts and ideas. Shared : it is common among a group of people. You"re translating your thoughts into public messages through this shared system. Our brains are generally left lateralized for language. Particular left hemisphere regions are specialized for particular language functions. But some aspects of language are supported by the right hemisphere - functional specializations [we know this by studying people who have aphasia] [some aspects will be processed by the right hemisphere - like prosody (how words are being said - mood)
