LING208 Language & Cognition 1.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LanguageLanguage Acquisition- Language & CognitionUniversityAll boards Created by: alicewinterburnCreated on: 19-04-15 00:32 Which areas of the brain process language? Broca & Wernicke's areas 1 of 11 Where is speech processed in the brain? initially through the right and left auditory cortices, but then there is a dedicated network located in the left temporal lobe 2 of 11 How is grammar processed? Primarily in the left left prefrontal cortex, in a region roughly corresponding to Broca's area 3 of 11 Where is meaning processed? Seems to be distributed across a wide network of interconnected sites. 4 of 11 Where are semantic relationships processed? this learning activates parts of the left inferior frontal gyrus 5 of 11 How are these circuits connected? areas cannot be activated in isolation- information needs to be exchanged between them 6 of 11 Where is language specialisation found in the brain? in 95-98% of neurologically intact adults, this is in the left hemisphere 7 of 11 How is cortical activation used in studying infant sensitivity to language? by using forward and backward speech, as backward speech is unnatural and violates prosodic/phonotactic constraints on language 8 of 11 Neuroimaging data indicates that... functional hemispheric specialisation for language can be detected at birth or shortly after 9 of 11 Why is the brain not adapted to literacy? reading cannot rely on functionally pre-specified areas of the brain because the emergence of writing systems only emerged several thousand years ago 10 of 11 How can we see if theres a critical period for language development? 1. we can examine the degree of recovery following a brain injury 11 of 11
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