LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Language Disorder, Neurolinguistics, Temporal Lobe
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Within template for the speeches, there are some differences. In 25 orders, songs or calls are genetic. Birds: if played recordings of the song in isolation, the birds will still learn the song (george miller) Neurolinguistics = the study of how language is represented and processed in the brain. Psycholinguistics = the study of mechanisms and operations involved in acquiring, producing, processing and understanding language. Almost completely anatomically separate (connected by corpus callosum) Cross-laterality - each hemisphere controls opposite side of the body. Split brain: no changes in iq or personality. Rh can perceive object in left visual field, but can"t talk about it (as that is in lh) Looking at cerebral anatomy of patients with neurological disorders. Aphasia - general term for language disorder due to brain injury (usually damage to lh) Happens because of stroke, traumatic head injury, hemorrhage, cerebral tumors, etc. Broca was interested in the pseudoscience of phrenology. Lack of grammatical/function words (it, is, to, a)