Exam 4 Flashcards

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Language Structure:

What is grammar?

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  • rules, the structure that governs language
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Language Structure:

What is syntax?

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  • organization of a sentence
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Language Structure:

What are semantics?

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  • the meaning of a sentence
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Language Structure:

What is phonology?

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  • the sounds of a language
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Language Structure:

What is orthography?

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  • the letters or script of a language
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Language Development:

What is language acquisition? Where does it begin?

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  • learn language
  • ## begins in the womb (ears start functioning and can hear sound patterns)
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Language Development:

Describe DeCasper and Spence’s study

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  • pregnant women read to unborn child
  • babies could chose to hear same story read by mother or a different story (chose based on rate of sucking pacifier)
  • indicates babies knew difference between one story and another - so language learning even in babies
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Language Development:

What is the critical period hypothesis? What evidence supports it?

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  • certain skills have to be learned at a certain point in time or they cannot be learned at all
  • critical period for language development is puberty
  • evidence: Genie - never taught language and at 13yrs could learn words but couldn’t put them together to form a sentence
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Language Development:

What is Chomsky’s Language Acquisition Device? How does it work?

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  • when exposed to language in the environment the “settings” for the particular language are keyed in
  • we are equipped to learn language
  • existing structure; we are also born with cog. concept of universal grammar
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Language Development:

Describe Saffran et al’s study and their findings

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  • babies able to learn statistical patterns of sounds (esp. transitional probabilities which are likelihood of a particular sound following another sound)
  • exposed to made up language (“bidaku, padoti, golabu, tupiro)”
  • chose between hearing word or non-word: preferred nonword
  • second exp chose between word and part-word: showed they understood where one word ends and next begins
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Comparative Language:

What are four properties of human language that distinguish it from the communication patterns of other species?

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  • duality of patterning: units of meaning (words) are made up of units which are meaningless on their own (letters)
  • arbitrary: words are arbitrary and are assigned meaning
  • generative capacity: we can create new words whenever we want to
  • recursion: take a sentence/thought & embed into another sentence (“nesting” ideas)
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Comparative Language:

What have studies on animals indicated about animals’ ability to learn and use human language?

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  • Koko the gorilla: learned sign language but didn’t make grammatically correct sentences
  • Kanzi the bonobo: understood what symbols meant
  • show the animals can understand some human lang (at toddler level) but can’t further
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Language Comprehension:

What is language comprehension?

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  • how we’re able to understand language

- know what spoken words mean and what words on a page mean

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Language Comprehension:

What is the Wernicke’s area? What is Wernicke’s aphasia and its symptoms?

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  • left hem, temporal lobe
  • area involved in lang comprehension
  • Wernicke’s aphasia: “word salad” in which words come out but lack meaning, may also have difficulty understanding questions
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Language Comprehension:

What is parsing?

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  • break input down into component words

- comprehension starts at word level

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Language Comprehension:

What did Just and Carpenter (1980) find regarding word fixation? What do their findings tells us about word processing?

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  • measured how long eyes stayed on certain words
  • longer on meaningful, unfamiliar, and first words
  • also longer for words that take longer to say/read
  • we don’t look at every single word but most of them, we may jump ahead but may need to backtrack
  • how eye processes words while reading
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Language Comprehension:

How are similar-sounding words stored in memory? What is neighborhood density?

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  • stored in same areas of memory
  • “neighborhoods” are stores of sim. sounding words
  • dense neighborhood has many words, so interference and competition in trying to figure out word (takes longer to figure out)
  • when still hearing the word all the words in neighborhood become active
  • as you hear more of the word some of the words in the neighborhood become inactive
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Language Comprehension:

What do the results of Allopenna et al tell us about word comprehension?

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  • subjects focused on objects on computer screen and given sentence (request)
  • where were people’s eyes looking when asked for “beaker” : equally likely to be looking at beaker or beetle
  • start trying to find out what it means as we’re hearing it
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Language Comprehension:
How do the results of Aaronson and Scarborough (1977) and Graf and Torrey (1966) demonstrate the importance of phrase boundaries in language comprehension?

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  • Aaronson and Scarborough: looked at how long people spend in between words; longer gaps between phrase boundaries
  • Graf and Torrey: gave subjects sentences one line at and then tested comprehension; better comprehension when setnences broken up by phrase boundaries
  • we process in terms of individual phrases not word by word
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Language Comprehension:

How can a sentence like “they are cooking apples” have an ambiguous structure?

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  • some words can be used as verb or adjective (ex. cooking)

- inflection can give away the meaning of a sentence

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Language Comprehension:

What are garden path sentences?

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  • as words are coming in, you are building on meaning so that initial interpretation has to be updated
  • ex. the old train vs. the old train the young
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Language Comprehension:
How do the results of Tyler and Marlsen-Wilson (1977) answer whether a sentence’s syntax is processed separately from its semantics?

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  • subjects read sentences and had to choose appropriate verb; either ambiguous sentence or unambiguous
  • slower response time for unambiguous inappropriate verb, fastest for ambiguous appro.
  • we use semantics to figure out what should come next w/ help of knowledge of syntax
  • we work w/ syntax and semantics at the same time
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Language Comprehension:

Describe Singer’s study and how it indicates that people make inference beyond info they’re provided with

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  • subjects told specific info and asked question
  • in one condition given all info, other cond left out piece of info to see if they would infer
  • RT for inference same as RT for control cond
  • slower response time when more info was removed
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Language Comprehension:

What is message subtext? What does it include?

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  • goes beyond language suing cues from the person delivering the message
  • includes sarcasm, exaggeration and idioms (cultural phrases that go beyond literal meaning)
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Language Production: | What is Broca's area? What is Broca's aphasia and its symptoms?
- frontal lobe, left hem - language production - Broca's aphasia: difficulty speaking, writing, no problem with meaning but trouble getting words out
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Language Production: | What are the three processes of speech production? (CFA)
- Conceptualization: figure out meaning you want to convey - Formulation: use syntactical structure and pull in words to help convey the meaning - Articulation: speech planning, control mouth and breath for words to come out
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Language Production: | What is Garrett's model of speech production? (FPS)
- expansion of formulation level - functional level: figure out diff parts of speech (ex. subject, verb, object) - positional level: figure out position/order of words - sound level: figure out individual sounds of the words
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Language Production: | What is the tip-of-the-tongue state speech error?
- functional level | - word that you know but cannot retrieve it from memory when you need it
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Language Production: | What is the word substitution speech error?
- functional level | - instead of saying word we want we say a diff word that is related in meaning
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Language Production: | What is the word blend speech error?
- functional level | - 2 diff words that might be appropriate in that spot in sentence but come out together/blended instead of picking one
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Language Production: | What is the morpheme exchange speech error?
- positional level - positional level - morpheme (meaning unit) of the word swaps but ending stays same - ex. I sampled some randomly- "randomed some samply"
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Language Production: | What is the word swap/exchange speech error?
- positional level - 2 words swap location-wise in sentence - usually same parts of speech (ex. noun and noun)
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Language Production: | What is the phrase blend speech error?
- positional level | - 2 diff phrases get mixed together
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Language Production: | What is the phoneme deletion speech error?
- sound level - sound missing, should be there but isn't - ex. "black" turns into "back"
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Language Production: | What is the affix deletion speech error?
- sound level - affffix = end word - drop final sound of word - usually the part which indicates if things are plural or past-tense
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Language Production: | What is the phoneme exchange (spoonerism) speech error?
- sound level | - swap beginnings of two words
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Language Production: | What is the phoneme preservation speech error?
- sound level | - earlier sounds in sentence show up after they should done
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Language Production: | What is the phoneme anticipation speech error?
- sound level | - sound in sentence shows up earlier than it should
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Language Production: | Describe Baars at al's study
- induced speech errors, subjects read list of word pairs starting w/ same letters (d and b) except flip order on last pair (b and d) - Exp. 1: more likely to make spoonerism if ending would be lexical (real) words in context - Exp. 2: nonlexical, no context; little diff in whether swap would be non-lexical or lexical
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Language Production: | How is writing diff from speech?
- time to plan prepare - tend to use more complex elements in writing - we write alone
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Language Production: | What are the three stages of writing ? (PTR)
- Planning: figure out message you want to communicate, more time than speech - Translation: take ideas from planning stage and put them on paper - Reviewing: read what you've written to spot errors and make sure message will be communicated to reader
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | What is meant by L1 and L2?
- L1 = native language, first language you learn to speak | - L2 = other language you learn
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | Are the lexicons of a bilingual's two languages stored separately or together?
- have some overlap but may not be stored together
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | What are cognates?
- word that is similar/same across the two lang you know
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | What is code-switching? When does it occur?
- bilingual speaking to another bilingual who speaks same langs - while speaking switch to other language (for word, phrase, or rest of sentence)
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | What are some advantages and disadvantages to being bilingual?
- disadvantage: bilingual toddlers are slower to acquire ind words - advantage: kids get to school know more words than monolingual peers and better capacity for learning language; better understand lang is symbolic; greater capacity for inhibitory control
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | What does it mean that bilinguals have greater inhibitory control? Why does this occur?
- inhibit the language you aren't using when you're talking to someone - more practice at inhibition
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Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: | Describe Linck et al's study
- effect of immersion on ability to inhibit first lang - subjects: 25 students abroad in Spain, 20 students on campus in classroom setting - translation recognition task: given word in English and word in Spanish, had to indicate if correct translation ve - verbal fluency task: given category and come up w/ as many examples as possible - immersed learners less distracted by distracters for translation task (not affected by lexical distracters while classroom group was); affected by semantic neighbors while classroom group wasn't - immersed better at producing more words in Spanish for verbal fluency, classroom better with English words - data consistent w/ idea that immersed group was inhibiting English while in Spain
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Language Applications: | What is dyslexia? What are the three types and their symptoms?
- dyslexia: deficit in reading comprehension or speed - surface dyslexia: difficulty reading irregular words - phonological dyslexia: difficulty sounding out words or non-words - deep dyslexia: misreading words as semantically-related ones (ex. "sister" as "daughter")
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Language Applications: | What is dysgraphia? What are its two types and their symptoms?
- dysgraphia: difficulty writing - surface level: spelling mistakes, writing letters incorrectly, letter spacing - deep level: semantic errors, writing the wrong word, word spacing
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Language Applications: | How does texting abbreviations and emoji compare w/ traditional speech and writing?
- slower to read abbreviations than the real words | - emojis: usually for nouns only, no established syntax, difficulties w/ interpretation
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Language Applications: What are some qualities of good writers? How do they differ from poor writers at each of the three stages of writing (planning, translation, reviewing)?
- Planning - good writers manipulate knowledge better, make suitable plans, more flexible in changing their plans; poor writers little planning and disorganized text - Translation - good writers write in longer more complex sentences, think in larger chunks, focus on whether writing will be understood and memorable - Reviewing: better at making broad changes to the meaning of their text
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Language Applications: | What are some tips for writing well?
- practice - start w/ outline but keep it broad - focus on individual sections and their purpose to the overall piece - don't force yourself to write chronologically - write for the reader
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Skill Acquisition and Expertise: | What changes occur with developing expertise?
- practice speeds performance - makes it more accurate - task requires less mental effort to perform
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Skill Acquisition and Expertise: | What are the three stages of skill acquisition?
- cognitive - associative - autonomous
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Skill Acquisition and Expertise: | Describe the cognitive stage of skill acquisition in terms of the memory rep, performance, and attention demands
- memory rep: declarative - performance: slow, inaccurate - attention demands: high
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Skill Acquisition and Expertise: | Describe the associative stage of skill acquisition in terms of the memory rep, performance, and attention demands
- memory rep: association made stronger - performance: improving - attention demands: medium
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Skill Acquisition and Expertise: | Describe the autonomous stage of skill acquisition in terms of the memory rep, performance, and attention demands
- memory rep: nondeclarative - performance: fast, accurate - attention demands: low
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Skill Acquisition and Expertise: | What is the power law, as applied to skill acquisition?
- steepest declines in time at the beginning, then less steep afterwards - little bit of practice initially improves performance a lot, but after it takes much practice to improve - skill remains long after practice but may require a "warm-up" period
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``` Skill Acquisition and Expertise: Describe Kolers (1979) study and what was found ```
- subjects read "transformed" text - initially slow but improved with practice - performance improved during first round of practice which is consistent w/ power law
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``` Skill Acquisition and Expertise: Describe Gray (2004) study and what was found ```
- single-task was batting a simulated ball, dual task was batting while responding to a tone - secondary task was either "extraneous" (reported pitch of tone) or "skill-focused" (report direction of bat) - Exp 1: experts not affected by extraneous task but novices were; experts worse w/ skill focused task while novices better - Exp 2: more attention to secondary task led to poorer batting performance - Exp 3: pressure reduced skill task errors but performance was worse; fewer errors w/ pitch task but more errors overall with skill task
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What qualifies as a "movement"? As "action"?
- movement: voluntary displacement of a body part in physical space - action: series of movements needed to accomplish a goal
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What is the perception-action cycle?
- idea that perception and action operate as a cycle and interact with one another - action directly impacts perception as well (may change it)
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What is meant by biological motion?
- we understand how animate objects should move
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What are point-light displays? When viewing them what info are we able to perceive?
- figure outlined by a few dots/lights - we see dots/lights but brain fills in details to see person - we can perceive: male/female, mental state, weight
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What is apparent motion? What did Shiffrar and Freyd (1990) do and find?
- apparent motion: see individual frames and brain fills in motion in between frames - study found that given enough time our brain defaults to biologically possible motion - if too short time then brain goes for shortest path of motion
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What are affordances?
- how an object permits one to interact with it | - we see objects for their affordances (uses)
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Perception-Action Cycle: | What are mirror neurons?
- neurons that fire when performing a movement and when viewing someone else do the same exact movement - Rizzolatti et al study looked at this with primates grasping objects
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Perception-Action Cycle: | Describe Proffitt et al's study
- perception changes based on how much effort we think we'll need to exert - Exp 1: estimate distance to cone, tended to underestimate distance but backpack group made higher estimates than contorl - Exp 2: either matched walking speed on treadmill w/ VR or no optic flow motion in VR; no optic flow walked further in place - Exp 3: estimate cone distance, treadmill walk, again estimate distance; no optic flow made higher estimates
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Motor-Planning and Updating: | What 3 brain regions are responsible for programming and executing motor plans? (SPP)
- supplementary motor area: strings together multiple movements to create an action plan - premotor cortex: sets up motor programs to accomplish a certain sequence of movements - primary motor cortex: sets up motor programs to accomplish a certain sequence of movements
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Motor-Planning and Updating: | What is the end-state comfort effect? How did Rosenbaum originally study it?
- we plan our movements so that we're comfortable at the end of the movement - originally studied with how people grabbed dowels
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Motor-Planning and Updating: | Describe Cohen and Rosenbaum's (2004) study on end-state comfort
- move plunger to different heights on shelf - Exp. 1: plan ahead for how high to move plunger "anticipation of shelf height," (move low grab high, vice versa). - Exp 2: changed where subject stood relative to home platform; still end state comfort effect no matter where standing - Exp. 3: target single location while home location varied; still end state comfort/ planning
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Motor Applications: | What is the Alexander Technique?
- "mindful movement" : realizing how your own body moves and paying attention to how it feels when you move
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Motor Applications: | Describe Cohen et al's study with the Alexander Technique and Parkinson's patients
- "lighten up" condition: less resistance for axial tone (amount of resistance when body turns w/ machine), less sway and best posture with quiet stance, step initiation had less jerky movements and better centered foot pressure
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Motor Applications: | How can the mirror illusion be used to help stroke recovery? What did Michielsen et al find?
- group with mirror therapy had higher post test scores, better able to move their hand after therapy - however the effects did not last once therapy was stopped