PSYCH 3UU3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Nim Chimpsky, Temporal Lobe, Parietal Lobe

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Primates use visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory signals to communicate with each other: dolphins and whales may have a language but we don"t know. Language: human speech with an artificial system of signs and symbols, with rules for forming intelligible communications for use. Non-human communication systems are limited by comparison to humans. Apes: utterances are mainly in the here-and-now, lack of syntactic structure, little comprehension of syntactic relationships between units, need explicit training to use symbols, cannot reject ill formed sentences, rarely ask questions, no spontaneous referential use of symbols. Kanzi: acquired language through observation of his mother"s learning 50 symbols with 800 combinations; no function words but the best seen yet. Aphasia: impairment in language production or comprehension as a result of brain damage. Broca"s aphasia: type of aphasia that follows from damage to broca"s region of the brain, characterized by many dysfluencies, slow, laborious speech, difficulties in articulation, and by agrammatism.

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