Experimental Psycholinguistics

Course goals

Content

Psycholinguistics is a branch of linguistics that studies the mental processes underlying the comprehension and production of verbal utterances, and how these processes are implemented in the brain. This course focuses on two topics – sentence processing and the mental lexicon. Sub-topics include strategies and cues that play a role in sentence processing, principles of language production, understanding, and the component processes such as word production and word recognition. Students will be acquainted with the fundamental insights of the field and compare them to recent advances in artificial intelligence. Additionally, students will learn about experimental techniques commonly used by psycholinguists, behavioral (e.g. eye tracking) as well as neurocognitive (e.g. ERP). We pay special attention to the comparison between Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, and look at current models for sentence processing and for the mental lexicon in both humans and machines.
 

Additional information

Voor studenten LAS en TCS die deze cursus volgen als deel van het kernpakket van hun hoofdrichting geldt een verplichte voorbereiding. Informatie: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/

This course is part of the specialisation 'Language and cognition' of the BA programme Linguistics and the specialisation 'Cognitive Processing' of the BA Kunstmatige Intelligentie.