file 9

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psycholinguistics

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the study of how the human mind processes language in the perception, production, storage, and acquisition of language

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neurolinguistics

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the study of the neural and electrochemical bases of language development and use

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temporal lobe

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area in the brain associated with the perception and recognition of auditory stimuli

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frontal lobe

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area of the brain concerned with higher thinking and language production

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occipital lobe

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area of the brain associated with many aspects of vision

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parietal lobe

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area of the brain that is least involved with language perception and production

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corpus collosum

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bundle of nerve fibers in the brain that is the major connection between the two hemispheres; partially severed in split-brain patients

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cortex

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outer surface of the brain responsible for many of the brain’s cognitive abilities

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language centers

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parts of the cortex of the brain that are used in the production and comprehension of language

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sylvian fissure

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a large horizontal fold located at the middle of each hemisphere of the brain that separates the temporal lobe from the frontal lobe

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superior temporal gyrus

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upper portion of the temporal lobe; the left STG is involved in sound processing and mapping physical sounds to linguistic phones

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wernicke’s area

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older term for the sylvian parietotemporal area and posterior parts of the STG

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inferior frontal gyrus

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lower portion of the frontal lobe; the left IFG organizes articulatory representations of language and coordinates motor commands for speech

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motor cortex

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posterior portion of the frontal lobe; responsible for signaling voluntary muscle movements

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visual cortex

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area of the brain located in the posterior occipital lobe in each hemisphere; responsible for receiving and interpreting visual stimuli

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arcuate fasciculus

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a bundle of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the SPT with the IFG; primarily responsible for sharing the phonetic and phonological information between these centers

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dorsal pathway

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connects the SPT with the IFG via the arcuate fasciculus; primarily used to pass phonetic and phonological detail

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ventral pathway

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connects the SPT with the ITG via the extreme capsule; primarily used to pass semantic information

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extreme capsule

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bundle of nerve fibers in the brain connecting the SPT with the ITG

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lateralization

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specialization of the brain hemispheres for different cognitive functions

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neural plasticity

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the ability of the brain to adapt to damage in one region by reassigning processing functions to another region

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contralateral

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property of the brain such that one side of the body is controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain

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dichotic listening task

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experiment that presents two different sounds simultaneously one in each ear

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split-brain patients

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individual who’s corpus callosum has been surgically disconnected

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hemispherectomy

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an operation in which one hemisphere or part of one hemisphere is surgically removed from the brain

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aphasias

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acquired inability to perceive, process, or produce language because of physical damage to the brain

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circumlocutions

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description of a word’s meaning used when a speaker is unable to name the intended word

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linguistic facial expressions

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any gesture such as facial expressions or head movements made during a sign that are not made with the hands

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Williams syndrome

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a disorder due to deletion of genes on chromosome 7 that substantially impairs cognitive function, but has been argued to leave language processing relatively intact

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speech production

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the processes involved in producing speech in sign

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anticipations

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production error in which a later unit is substituted for a earlier unit, or in which a later unit is added earlier in an utterance

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perseverations

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production error in which an earlier unit is substituted for a later unit, or in which an earlier unit is added later in an utterance

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malaproprism

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performance error by which a speaker uses a semantically incorrect word in place of a phonetically similar word

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lack of invariance

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problem in speech perception because no sound is ever produced exactly the same way twice

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speaker normalization

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the modification of our expectations or judgement about linguistic input to account for what we know about the speaker

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categorical perception

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phenomenon by which people perceive entities differently after learning to categorize them

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McGurk effect

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effect illustrating that we rely not only on an acoustic signal in the perception of speech, but also on visual information

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full listing hypothesis

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hypothesis that every word is stored as a separate entry in the mental lexicon

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spreading activation

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activation that flows from words just accessed to other related words raising the resting activation those related words

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cohort model

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model of lexical access in which possible words in the mental lexicon are identified based on the initial sounds of the word