COGS 154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dysphagia, Neurodegeneration, List Of Voice Disorders

• School: UCSD
• Department: Cognitive Science
• Course: COGS 154
• Professor: Shengqi Yang

Document Summary

Course syllabus: survey of normal & disordered communication, approach: descriptive - etiological [studying the cause of the disease] - anatomical - theoretical [evidence-based, draw upon literature from cognitive science, neurology, linguistics, psychology, neurobiology, and speech-language pathology. Final exam is heavily on last unit, but technically is cumulative [some questions from midterm is on final] What impact does this have on the listener + on the communicator. What is communication: relaying a message, exchanging meaningful information between sender and receiver [intentional + unintentional, more of a broad term (verbal + nonverbal outputs) compared to language. Language doesn"t necessarily need to be verbal output [writing, signing, acoustic signals, etc] understanding [expressive + receptive] Language isn"t only what is needed to be produced, but also. Why would hearing affect communication: it allows us to set up our language system properly when we are young children o to pick up the signal that your communication partner is saying]