This module examines subtopics within psycholinguistics which all help to understand what the relationship between language and the human mind might be. Each area brings its own insights into this debate, and the module will aim to analyse the specificity of each of these fields, but also to establish links between them in
order to gain a deeper understanding of the issues relating them. The module typically looks at such topics as:
1. Language processing
- comprehension: how do we process the incoming sound sequence in order to extract the content of the
message.
- production: How do we transform what we want to say into a sequence of sounds. The various stages of the planning process will be explored.
-computational models
-The mental lexicon
-the process of reading and dyslexia.
2. Language and the brain
--he structure of the brain
- evidence from brain damage: how does brain damage affect language production and comprehension?
- memory, word storage
- language disorders: what do they tell us about the organisation of language in the brain?
