9.98 | January IAP 2003 | Undergraduate

Language and Mind

Study Materials

These are examples of study questions that are designed to build understanding in language and language processing. Though the answers given here are brief, students should be able to expand the answer for each question to 1-2 pages.

Basic Outline Study Questions

What are we looking at?
– Basic neuroanatomy

What tools do we have?
– Neuroimaging techniques

What questions can we ask?
– Neurolinguistics

Neurolinguistic Study Questions

Phonemic vs. Phonetic Processing?
– MMN Category discrimination

The Lexicon?
– Auditory and orthographic word retrieval

Morphological decomposition?
– Priming and inhibition