PSY374H5 Midterm: Lectures 4-6
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Week 5 language processing and social interaction, pt 1. Incongruent gesture cues: people have spontaneous uptake of the information. It makes sense to think we have evolved in a way to capitalize us on this information: this is an effect that makes sense. Consider this brief dialogue between sarah and lisa. Uh, so did sean go home for uh. It would be better to not have these intrusive effects because we would have better streamline processing and be able to figure out who"s doing what to whom more efficiently. If we look at what real language looks like, we start to get a slightly different picture on whether this looks entirely irrational or not. It is clear what the message is about. In terms of spoken work, you read or hear it and it is triggered: things driven by perception, top-down effects help with processing and overcoming ambiguity, ex.
