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re-do: week 8 notes (human processing: brain, mind and language) - Coggle…
re-do: week 8 notes (human processing: brain, mind and language)
neurolinguistics: a part of neuroscience that tries to understand how language is represented and processed (in the brain)
how can we find the areas of the brain, which is responsible for human language?
if something happened (like an accident), and some part of language ability is impaired (like grammar, morphology, etc.), then one can try to identify what happened in the brain
then maybe scientists can localize the problem, and identify which parts are responsible for what
this is a part of the reason why most language-based research is focused on brain damage (head injury, strokes, etc.)
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aphasia is a broad term to refer to numerous "cases" of communicative impairment (reading, writing, speaking, listening..)
usually as a result of damage to the brain (often a stroke), blows to the head, etc.
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phonological acquired dyslexia: a person used to be able to read write normally and be fine; but then they seem to have lost the ability to "sound out and spell" new words
meaning, they can only read the words they've seen before the accident
surface dyslexia: when a person has no problem reading words that follow the "sound it out" rule of reading; but has trouble reading words that are "rebels" and don't follow the regular rules
for example, yacht (not really pronounced the way it is spelled)
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word deafness: when a patient is unable to understand spoken words, but can do everything else just fine (reading, writing, speaking)
word blindness: is when patients cannot understand written words, but can read them aloud
for example, they can read the word "material" but not understand the word
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neurolinguists believe that studying language form and use, will show the "rules" of brain function
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like, how the brain is organized
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