PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Auditory Cortex, Temporal Lobe, Frontal Lobe
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Humans were only species that considered to have languages long ago. Languages = flexible systems that use symbols to express many meanings. True verbal ability is a social behaviour: conclusion emerged from studies of primates. Language plays crucial role in day-to-day communication as a tool for remembering. Language enables us to think about very complex and abstract issues by encoding them and thinking as words. Speaking, listening, writing, reading are behaviours we can study. Through listening and reading we can share our experiences. We can from other people specific behaviours and helpful information. We produce series of sounds in continuous stream: punctuated by pauses, stress and changes in pitch. We maintain regular rhythmic pattern of stress. Speech does not come to us as series of individual words we must extract the words from stream of speech. Auditory system performs complex task enabling us to recognize speech sounds. We can filter out non-speech sounds (cough or chuckles)
