PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Phonological Dyslexia, Buttered Popcorn, Language Acquisition Device
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Language (symbols to express many meanings) not the same as communicating. Many species can communicate but only humans use languages until we taught primate species to use sign language. Use language as a tool for remembering and thinking (we often encode info verbally) Psycholinguistics: branch of psychology devoted for studying verbal behaviour (ex. How children learn to speak from interactions with adults) Belin, zatorre and ahad found that regions of the brain (temporal, auditory cortex) responded more when people heard human vocalizations than when they only heard natural sounds using fmri. When analyzing a detailed info of speech, left hemisphere of brain plays a bigger role. Scott, blank, rosen, and wise used pet scans to determine that left regions specialize in recognizing special aspects of speech. Phonemes: are the smallest units of sound (ex. Pin = p + i + n ) Voice-onset time: delay between initial sound of consonant and onset of vibration of vocal cords.
