PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - Anterograde Amnesia, N100, Westron
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It was not too long ago that humans were the only ones believed to have language. One conclusion that has emerged from the studies of primates is that true verbal ability is a social. Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour. The ability to engage in verbal behaviour confers decided advantages on our species. Common speech produces a series of sounds in a continuous stream. Humans use speech in segments and phrases rather than pausing after each word. Speech therefore doesn"t come to us as individual words but rather a combination of many. Human vocalizations are clearly distinguished from other sounds around us. They contain enough information that we can recognize an individual by the sound of their speech. For example the ability to recognize a face from hearing a persons voice.
