Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Connectionism, Psycholinguistics

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Psycholinguistics y three categories: the function of language, models of language processing, physiological localization of functions in the brain y examine the evidence for two major views of human mental processes, modularity, connectionism. What is language? y although every organism can relay information within species, only humans use language y. In human communication all languages have words that serve as symbols for objects and concepts y words alone, however are not sufficient to make a language y. Important feature common to all human languages is that they possess a system of rules for combining words into sentences. Infants vocalize the entire range of phonemes regardless of culture y bilingualism: sensitive period for second language acquisition, positive correlates of bilingualism. expresses a proposition (a statement of facts) consists of images we see , hear , feel , etc. in our minds: motoric though.