Language Processing (Kartei)

19 Karteikarten

• 1
  Psycholinguistics

  - Theories of speech production and comprehension - Focus ...
• 2
  Neurolinguistics

  - What happens in the brain when we use language? - Local ...
• 3
  Neurological questions

  - Which areas of the brain are involved? - Is there a ...
• 4
  Fundamental questions

  - Does the human brain use the levels of theoretical ...
• 5
  Implementational questions

  - Modular design or integrated processing? - If modular, ...
• 6
  Neurological evidence

  - Diseases & disabilities - Localised injuries or brain ...
• 7
  Testing the difficulty of processing

  - Garden-path effects ("hard" ambiguities) - Reading times ...
• 8
  Interaction with other cognitive systems

  - Visual attention (visual world paradigm) - Interference ...
• 9
  Psychological experiments

  - Intuitive rating ("How natural does this sentence ...
• 10
  Aphasias

  Injuries causing loss or impairment of the ability to ...
• 11
  Conclusion from aphasias

  # Existence and localisation of "language device" # ...
• 12
  How does the left side of the brain look like?

  http://www.mindpicnic.de/media/img/user/andreas-47221-bild3. ...
• 13
  Brain lateralisation

  - The left hemisphere is specialized for language ...
• 14
  fMRI

  - high spatial resolution, but low temporal resolution - ...
• 15
  ERP (event-related potentials)

  - based on electroencephalogram (EEG) - related to ...
• 16
  Types of ERP

  ELAN (Early left anterior negativity) - Small negative ...
• 17
  What is a garden path?

  - Class of cases in which the human system fails - ...
• 18
  Measuring reading time

  - Self-paced reading (button after each word) - ...
• 19
  Processing theories: Certain kinds of structures preferred ...

  - Minimal attachement: Don't postulate extra nodes - Late ...