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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Neurolinguistics: Language and the brain
Dr. Aya Meltzer-Asscher
The course includes various topics in the study of language and the brain, with the aim of providing the students with a broad basis for advanced studies in the field of neurolinguistics.
The topics discussed will include:
• Introduction and basic concepts
o Very short intro to neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
o Intro to imaging techniques
o Intro to Aphasiology
• Speech perception and auditory processing
o The problem of speech recognition
o Speech perception: paradigms and findings
o The speech recognition lexicon
o Deficits in auditory processing
• Morphology and the mental lexicon
o Paradigms and findings
o Morphological impairments
• Lexical semantics
o Priming, the N400 and the organization of the lexicon
o Imaging findings on lexical semantics
o Deficits in lexical semantics
• Sentence comprehension
o Syntactic processing: modularity vs. interactivity
o Real time processing and working memory
o Agrammatism
Prerequisites: foundations of theoretical linguistics, beginners syntax, beginners phonology
Course requirements: bi-weekly assignments, midterm, final exam
Course books:
Ingram, J.C.L (2007). Neurolinguistics: An Introduction to Spoken Language Processing and its Disorders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stemmer, B. & Whitaker, H.A. (2008). Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language. Elsevier.
Dr. Aya Meltzer-Asscher
The course includes various topics in the study of language and the brain, with the aim of providing the students with a broad basis for advanced studies in the field of neurolinguistics.
The topics discussed will include:
• Introduction and basic concepts
o Very short intro to neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
o Intro to imaging techniques
o Intro to Aphasiology
• Speech perception and auditory processing
o The problem of speech recognition
o Speech perception: paradigms and findings
o The speech recognition lexicon
o Deficits in auditory processing
• Morphology and the mental lexicon
o Paradigms and findings
o Morphological impairments
• Lexical semantics
o Priming, the N400 and the organization of the lexicon
o Imaging findings on lexical semantics
o Deficits in lexical semantics
• Sentence comprehension
o Syntactic processing: modularity vs. interactivity
o Real time processing and working memory
o Agrammatism
Prerequisites: foundations of theoretical linguistics, beginners syntax, beginners phonology
Course requirements: bi-weekly assignments, midterm, final exam
Course books:
Ingram, J.C.L (2007). Neurolinguistics: An Introduction to Spoken Language Processing and its Disorders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Stemmer, B. & Whitaker, H.A. (2008). Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language. Elsevier.