WEEK 4: HUMAN INTELLIGENCE GENES; LANGUAGE in the BRAIN March 15
Section outline
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Language and Genes
- Williams syndrome: A preserved language function?
- Linguistic and nonlinguistic impairments in Williams and Down syndromes; evidence of interlinking of general and linguistic cognition
Disorders of language and other cognitive functions: SLI and Dyslexia
The brain is inscrutable and language is multifunctional: Tracing the functions through brain neural networks
Grey matters: Understanding language, lecture by J. Elman
Reading: Sedivy, ch. 3, part I
McGilchrist,The Divided Brain, TED Talk
Web activities, ch. 3: Dichotic listening (see above) and Linguistic or paralinguistic/affective use of tone, vowel length, syllable stress and clicks https://learninglink.oup.com/access/content/sedivy-2e-student-resources/sedivy2e-chapter-3-web-activity-2?previousFilter=tag_chapter-03