PSYA02H3 Lecture Notes - 18 Months, Aphasia, Christopher Story
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Example: christopher learned languages very quickly, but has trouble with simple cognitive tests and can"t make decisions or reason he lives in a halfway house. 5 major cognitive functions: acquiring and using language, forming concepts and categories, making decisions, solving problems, reasoning (all necessary for everyday life) Language and communication: from ruling to meaning species have systems of communication to allow them to transmit messages to each other. Language- a system for communicating with others using signals that are combined according to rules of grammar and convey meaning. Grammar- a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages. Three distinctions of human language: 1) complex structure 2) words used to refer to intangible things 3) languages used to categorize, name, and describe things to ourselves when we think. Complex structure of human language- fairly recent evolutionary phenomenon.
