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Cognitive Psychology: Language Processing

Focused study of language comprehension, production and mental representations.

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1 Language as a Mental Process

Explore how people comprehend and produce language, the knowledge that supports these processes, and how psycholinguists investigate them.
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2 Representing Sounds and Words

Learn how sound patterns, word structure, lexical knowledge, and context work together in recognizing and producing language.
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3 Understanding Sentence Structure

Learn how syntax builds hierarchical sentence representations, how comprehension unfolds word by word, and how ambiguity can lead readers to revise an initial interpretation.
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4 Meaning and Discourse Comprehension

Learn how readers and listeners combine words, grammar, context, and background knowledge to build and revise an understanding of sentences and discourse.
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5 Planning and Producing Language

Learn how intentions are shaped into messages, formulated as language, and produced as speech or writing through flexible, overlapping processes.
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6 Coordination, Prediction, and Repair

Explore how comprehension and production interact in conversation, how listeners predict upcoming language, and how monitoring and repair help participants coordinate.
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7 Methods and Models of Language Processing

Learn how researchers infer language representations from controlled behavioral and neural evidence, and what each method can—and cannot—show.
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Quizzes

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1 Language as a Mental Process

A medium-difficulty quiz on psycholinguistic processes, mental representations, and methods for studying language.
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2 Representing Sounds and Words

Assess understanding of how speech sounds, word structure, lexical knowledge, and context contribute to language comprehension and production.
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3 Understanding Sentence Structure

A medium-difficulty quiz on hierarchical sentence structure, syntactic ambiguity, and incremental comprehension.
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4 Meaning and Discourse Comprehension

A medium-difficulty quiz on how people build and revise meaning across words, sentences, and discourse.
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5 Planning and Producing Language

A medium-difficulty quiz on how intentions are planned, formulated, and realized as speech or writing.
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6 Coordination, Prediction, and Repair

A medium-difficulty quiz on how prediction, comprehension, production, monitoring, and repair support coordinated language use.
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7 Methods and Models of Language Processing

A medium-difficulty quiz on how researchers use behavioral and neuroscientific evidence to investigate language processing and mental representations.
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Flashcards

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1 Language as a Mental Process

Review how people comprehend and produce language, how linguistic knowledge is represented in the mind, and how psycholinguists investigate these processes.
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2 Representing Sounds and Words

Review how speech sounds are represented, how words are built, and how lexical knowledge and context support understanding.
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3 Understanding Sentence Structure

Review how people build hierarchical sentence structures, interpret ambiguity, and revise an initial parse as new words arrive.
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4 Meaning and Discourse Comprehension

Learn how readers and listeners combine words, grammar, context, and knowledge to build and revise coherent interpretations of sentences and discourse.
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5 Planning and Producing Language

Learn how people plan, formulate, produce, and monitor spoken and written language.
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6 Coordination, Prediction, and Repair

Learn how comprehension and production interact through prediction, speech monitoring, and conversational repair.
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7 Methods and Models of Language Processing

Learn how behavioral and neuroscientific methods provide complementary evidence about language processing and mental representations, including the strengths and limits of each method.
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