PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eleanor Rosch, Szymon Winawer, Common Logarithm
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Importantly, a single prototype cannot convey such correlation: exemplar-based approach allows learning of such. Ishai and sagi"s experiment correlation: evidence for analog code for mental imagery, detect a dim target in between, masks, nothing. Imagined masks: normally, it is easier to detect the target when presented with masks with enough distance, imagined masks helped the target detection just like the physical masks. What is language: what does language allow us to do, language is a shared tool/system of communication across members who share it. It is expressed and understood through our sensory systems (often, but not limited to vocal/auditory: psycholinguistics: scientific study of psychological processes by which humans acquire and process language. Inflectional morphemes- when combined, it modifies other aspects (eg. verb"s tense, noun"s number) of word without changing the word"s meaning or class (ie. part of speech: eg. 1994: the lawyer charged the defendant was lying (garden path sentence, the lawyer charged that the defendant was lying (no gps)
