PSYC20008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Habituation, Categorical Perception, Feral Child
22 Aug 2018
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Appears to have something to do with grammatical processing. Adjacent to the part of the motor control area for the jaws, lips, and tongue. Damage to broca"s area produces a certain kind of aphasia (language difficulty) resulting in stilted, ungrammatical (but contentful) speech. Appears to have something to do with meaning and word access. Adjacent to the primary auditory area that receives linguistic input. Damage to wernicke"s area produces a certain kind of aphasia resulting in fluent speech that is completely lacking in sense. Poor social skills (eye contact, disinterest, little empathy) Vocabulary usually better than grammar, but sometimes no language at all. Too many confounds to validate as evidence for nature vs nurture argument. Grammatical task = age trend of when sign language was acquisition. The later you learn your first language, the worst you do on it. Performance on grammatical tasks in one"s second language depends highly on the age it was learned.
