PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psycholinguistics, Saccade
20 Mar 2016
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Neurocognitive processes involved in producing and understanding. How individuals understand, produce and acquire language. Care about the mind/brain of language user. Orthographic features (visual: shapes of letters), phonological features (sound pattern), words, prosodic contour (intonation) Process: syntactic parse, semantic retrieval, compositional analysis=literal/propositional meaning. Other parts of understanding: figure out ambiguities (e. g. who is she ) and meaning lookup (what does job" mean), non-literal or figurative retrieval. Social pragmatic meaning: emotional tone, social status, speaker etc. ^^integrate all different domains of language to comprehend. Brain areas distinguish between different levels of language (e. g. broca"s aphasia: problem with syntax and grammar vs. wernicke"s: problem with content/meaning) Language related potentials: (event related potentials) can show us what parts of language deal with what levels (syntax grammar semantics etc. ) E. g n400 potential: different brain activity with different words/sentences (e. g. n 400 for the sentence that doesn"t make sense) P600 effect: grammatically correct vs. not grammatically correct. Both change with semantic expectation and predictability.
