LING 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Neurolinguistics, Cerebellum, Paul Broca
24 Dec 2018
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What kind of knowledge do we have when we know a language: mental grammar, grammatical systems, phonetics/phonology sound, morphology word formation, syntax sentence formation. We will now start investigating how language is . Instantiated in the brain: acquired by children. Is related to and affects other forms of cognition. Neurolinguistics: the study of the neural mechanisms in the human brain that control the comprehension, production, and acquisition of language. Where is language located in the brain. Brain anatomy: cerebrum: contains the left and right hemispheres, cerebellum: coordinates muscle movements, controls posture and balance, brain stem: acts as a relay center and performs many automatic functions such as breathing and heart rate. Finger tip movements: amygdala social behaviors, hippocampus short-term memory. Big violence area in the brain = violent person: believed that size/shape of the skull reflected the size of these areas of the brain, phrenology has been disproven.
