LANGUAGE
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lecture schedule)
| Lecture | Media | Resources | Lab Handout | Readings (optional unless noted) |
| language part 1 | Discovering psychology: (Ch. 6: Language Development) | Applied: Jury instructions: Exact or Clear? | Categorical Identification & Discrimination | Speech recognition by computers |
| language part 2 | The Mind (Ch. 27, animal language) | Applied: | Why do children say 'breaked'? | |
| Study Guide | Teaching language to children (radio interview with P. Kuhl, KUOW) see optional PNAS paper |
Phonics is the right way to teach children how to read, says this Scientific American article. |
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| Neuroscience of Reading (Carr) | ||||
| Bilingualism & inhibitory control (Bialestock) | ||||
| Phonological Awareness (CurrDir) | ||||
| dyslexia |
USEFUL LINKS
Aphasia Lab (link here)
Aphasia Lab (ToP)
Phonemic restoration effect: utterances sound intact, even when parts of them have been deleted and replaced by an extraneous sound.
A good example of pragmatics (and a mini-lecture on the cognitive science of swearing), by MIT professor Steve Pinker. Here is the whole lecture