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Title: Psycholinguistics


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Psycholinguistics
  • Neurolinguistics Language and the brain

2
The case of Phineas Gage
  • He was a railroad construction foreman in 1848.
  • An iron rod passed through his head in an
    explosives accident.
  • He survived, and was back at work within a few
    days.
  • His language ability was unaffected
  • Major personality problems ensued
  • He probably did not join a circus Fromkin is
    wrong!

3
Modularity
  • Before Gage the brain just a big mass?
  • Now, evidence that different brain parts have
    different functions
  • Early evidence was from autopsies
  • Now, of course, we can use MRI and other
    technologies

4
Lateralization
  • The brain is made up of two hemispheres
  • Left and right
  • Motor control
  • Right hemisphere controls left side of body
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