13 | Architecture of the language processing system

Question 1

What is the stroop effect?

Answer 1

Asked to name the color in which a word is printed, and find it difficult to ignore what the word means

Question 2

What is Broca’s aphasia?

Answer 2

Syntactically correct sentences, but lacking any semantic meaning

Question 3

What is Wernicke’s aphasia?

Answer 3

In Wernicke’s aphasia, the ability to grasp the meaning of spoken words and sentences is impaired, while the ease of producing connected speech is not very affected.

Question 4

What is anomia?

Answer 4

Difficulty with finding words and naming things, no problem understanding language

Question 5

What is word deafness?

Answer 5

Word deafness, when you can read, write and speak quite normally, but are unable to understand words spoken to them, although their hearing system is otherwise unimpaired.
No problem understanding language

Question 6

What is specific language impairment?

Answer 6

In SLI there is early and often lasting impairment in language capabilities
SLI speech tends to be slow and deliberate, and typically exhibits problems with grammatical forms

Question 7

What is chatterbox syndrome?

Answer 7

Sufferers typically speak fluently and grammatically, and also score well on specifically linguistic tasks such as grammaticality judgement
Stupid

Question 8

What are visual word paradigms?

Answer 8

Evidence against separation of modules

Bridging inference shows that we rely understanding of the world around us to connect words together