PSYA02H3 Chapter : PSYA02 Notes Ch10-13.docx
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Language: flexible systems that use symbols to express many meanings. Psycholinguistics: a branch of psychology devoted to the study of verbal behaviour (more concern w/ human cognition than w/ rules that describe language). When speaking we produce a series of sounds in a continuous stream, punctuated by stress and changes in pitch. Speech doesn"t come to us as a series of individual words; we must extract the words from a stream of speech. Auditory system performs the complex task of enabling us to recognize speech sounds. Some regions of the brain located in the temporal cortex and auditory cortex showed that the brain responded more when ppl heard human vocalization (both speech and non-speech) than natural sounds. The auditory area on the left hemisphere showed a greater contrast in response. Phoneme: the minimum unit of sound that conveys meaning in a particular language, such as pin - /p/+/i/+/n/ (each individual letter = phoneme).
