Diapositiva 1

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Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics
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Language and the brain.

• There are 3 main areas where the ability to use
  language is located
• Brocas area
• Wernickes area
• Supplementary motor area

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Brocas Area

• This area of the brain is crucially involved in
  the production of speech.
• Paul Broca, a french surgeon, stablished in
  1860s extreme difficulties affecting the
  produccion of speech were extremelly related to
  this left area of our brains.

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Wernickes Area

• It is that part of the brain involved in the
  understanding of speech
• Carl Wernicke, a german doctor, stated in 1870s
  that all those patients with damage in this part
  of the brain, presented comprehension
  difficulties.

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Supplementary Motor Area

• In this part of the brain are found all those
  physical features which allows us to reproduce
  speech.

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Localization View

• This states that specific features of language
  ability can be related to specific localizations
  in the brain.
• In this sense a word is heard and comprehend by
  Wernickes area, then it is send to Brocas area
  where it is prepared to be produce, finally, It
  is articulated by supplementary motor area.

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Tongue tips and slips

• These are some difficulties we all have sometime
  in keeping our brain and speech working
  effectibly.
• Tips of the tongue when you forget about
  a word you already know.
• Malapromism when we want to refer to a
  word and name a series of other with similar
  pronunciation.

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• Slip of the tongue( Spoonerims) when someone
  interchange certain sound form word to another
• A long shory sort by A long story short
• Slips of the ears when someone hears
  something very different in meaning but similar
  in sound.

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Aphasia

• Brocass aphasia
• - Difficulties in articulating some words
• Wernickes aphasia
• - Dificulties with auditory comprehension

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Dichonic listening Test
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Remembering

• The critical period
• Giniss case

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• Where is language located in the brain?
• What happend with the right hemisphere?
• How did neurologists arrive to all this
  conclusions?
• What is the name of all those language
  difficulties?