Language and the Brain

What is the primary goal of psycholinguistics?

What is the term for the area in the frontal lobe responsible for language production?

What is the term for the study of the meaning of language?

What is the term for the process by which humans learn language?

What is the term for the internal mental dictionary of words?

Who proposed that language is learned through reinforcement?

What is the process called when an error signal is sent back through the network?

What is the term for the impairment in which a person is unable to identify one type of object but can identify others?

What is the approach that proposes that there are specific neural circuits in the brain for specific categories?

What is the term for the phenomenon where animals tend to share many properties?

What is the approach that states that our knowledge of concepts is based on the reactivation of sensory and motor processes?

What is the term for the correspondence between words related to specific parts of the body and the location of brain activity?

What is the rate at which language occurs?

What is the principle that states that a person's parsing mechanism assumes a new word is part of the current phrase?

What is the approach to parsing that suggests information in addition to syntax participates in processing?

What paradigm is used to determine how information in a scene influences sentence processing?

What type of construction occurs when the relative pronoun takes the place of the subject of the clause?

What is the factor that can influence language processing, according to the Constraint-Based Approach?