PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 74: Frontal Lobe, Noam Chomsky, Psy
17 Dec 2019
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It gave humans huge edge over other animals and increased changes of human survival: evidence that specific regions of brain are predisposed to be used for language. Broca"s area: a region of the left frontal lobe of the brain that is involved in producing words. Damage to this area causes difficulty producing words correctly. Wernicke"s area: a region of the brain"s left hemisphere that is involved in language comprehension. Damage to this area causes poor comprehension and often produce fluent but incomprehensible speech. Damage to either of these areas produces types of aphasia, which is a loss or impairment of language processing: chomsky"s language acquisition device (lad) Chomsky proposed that humans are biologically prewired to learn language at a certain time and in a certain way. Said children are born into the world with a language acquisition decide, which is a biological endowment that enables the child to detect certain features and rules of language, including phonology, syntax, and semantics.
