PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Frontal Lobe, Staccato, Temporal Lobe
24 Nov 2018
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Children show higher cog funct such as exec cntrl. What bilinguals have to do in everyday life to switch between languages and suppress one. Bilingual children have smaller vocab in both languages. Bilinguals might have built up more cog resources. Grey matter in some areas denser in bilinguals > left parietal region activated during verbal fluency task. Incr dnsity most pronounced in ppl w higher proficiency. Apes cannot learn to speak bc of how their vocal tracts are built: asl. Work w chimp washoe as though she was deaf child. Ppl fluent in asl were able to talk to her: geometric sym repping words, geometric sym repping words. Understood sentences like "go get the balloon that"s in the microwave" Vocab: still limited to young child (10000) Apes wont be able to learn meaning of words for abstract things (eg. time) Understanding of grammar: apes can"t combine more than 3 or 4 words in grammatically correct way.
