Discover Psychology
March 21st, 2014
How do we turn the thoughts in our heads into a meaningful sequence of sounds coming out of our mouths? It is one of the most complicated skills we perform, and one that is most characteristically human. Most of the time we don't even appreciate how difficult this is, because we are so good at it. However, speech occasionally goes wrong¬we make slips of the tongue, or experience retrieval failures like tip-of-the-tongue states. In this talk I discuss how the scientific investigation of speech errors can teach us about how our brains do the incredible task of normal speech production.
Karin Humphreys is an Associate Professor in cognitive psychology at the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour at McMaster University, where she studies language production in both normal and pathological speech.
23 мар 2014
