PSY10000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Language Production, Cocktail Party, Handedness
7 Nov 2017
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Questions of the day: describe the diencephalon, describe the basal ganglia. Missing limb itches (scratch some part of the face: you can also trick the body (cid:271)y (cid:862)(cid:272)reati(cid:374)g(cid:863) the pha(cid:374)to(cid:373) li(cid:373)(cid:271) usi(cid:374)g a (cid:373)irror of your other limb, language areas, broca"s area. Bro(cid:272)a"s aphasia: severe problem with retrieving and producing language (full grammatical sentences). I(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals (cid:449)ith bro(cid:272)a"s aphasia have trouble speaking fluently but their comprehension can be relatively preserved: wemick"s area. We(cid:373)i(cid:272)k"s aphasia: produ(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of la(cid:374)guage is fi(cid:374)e, (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)prehend what others/themselves are trying to say: e(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)es are (cid:449)ell stru(cid:272)tured (cid:271)ut do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ake se(cid:374)se, hemispheres. Greater regional connections: laterality and handwriting, handedness: preferring one hand over the other. Right handed people are also left-eyed: hemispheric connections, corpus collosum: Cut it (cid:272)lea(cid:374) through: he(cid:373)ispheres (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t talk a(cid:374)y(cid:373)ore: split brain patient: usually severe epileptics. Concurrent drawing test: attention, primary purpose: selection, attention selects things for further processing, early filter theory: Messaged that is not attended to is not remembered.
