Subject Code: HS6L008 Subject Name: Brain and Language processing L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit: 4

Pre-Requisite(s): None

Content:

    An Introduction to Language Science, Language Characteristics, Grammar, Language Origins, and Non-Human Communication Systems, Language and Thought, A description of the Language-Processing System; Linguistic Universals and modality effects, Pre-lexical analysis and lexical access, Recognition and context effects, Frequency, competition and neighbourhoods, Recognizing morphologically complex forms; Language Acquisition, Critical period hypothesis and the effect of late language acquisition, Bilingualism, Pathways and streams in the auditory cortex, The neuroanatomical pathway model of language: syntactic and semantic networks; Neuro anatomy of language regions of the human brain: Historical background, Morphological features of the core language regions, Connectivity of the core language areas, Brain language mechanisms built on Action and perception, Memory for language, Medial temporal lobe Memory System; Word and sentence processing, Syntax: the structure of Sentences, Factors affecting visual words, Models of visual word recognition, Processing of non-literal languages, Neurology of Sign language; Reading: Introduction, Eye movement control and reading, Oculomotor and Cognitive Control Theories of reading, Cognitive Processing in Reading-I, Different writing Systems and Scripts, Learning to read, Cognitive Processing in Reading-II, Dual rout model, Single route model, Neighbourhood effects, Non-word pronunciation, The role of the anterior temporal lobe in sentence processing, Neural system underlying the processing of complex sentences; Bilingual Language Processing: Introduction, Secrets of Bilingualism, Comprehension, Competition in production, Models of language control in bilingual speakers, Bilingualism and executive control, Teaching techniques and differences in second language learner, Neural basis of bilingualism


Text/Reference Books:
  1. Traxler M.J. Introduction to Psycholinguistics: Understanding Language Science, Wiley-Blackwell
  2. Warren P. Introducing Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press
  3. Francois Grosjean and Ping Li. The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism, Wiley-Blackwell
  4. Thomas Scovel. Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press
  5. Gregory Hickok and Steven L. Small. Neurobiology of Language. Academic Press Inc.
  6. Maria Mdy. Neural Mechanisms of Language, Springer
  7. Karen Emmorey Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights from Sign Language research, Routledge
  8. Michael Petrides. Neuroanatomy of Language Regions of the Human Brain, Academic Press Inc.