PSYC56H3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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Even if there is, it might not have separate neural processing circuitry y. can argue that there isn t music module but general auditory recognition module. this account suggests that we won t be able to find people that have lost ability to recognize words, but can still recognize words. Important level: syntax, critical topic of neuropsychology: syntax: set of principles that accommodation sequences. product of syntax, how we put them words together. In language, understand syntax as, who did what to what. had more problems perceiving basic pitch relations than patients w left temporal lobe damage. Impairment she saw could not be explained by a problem in basic pitch discrimination. In study, used 2 different stimuli that alternated up and down: second: had a missing fundamental, subjects who hear missing fundamental will also hear the up down direction. Impact on tonality on brain processes y peter genata.
