Here are some links to the videos of the honeybee’s tail-wagging dance from today’s class: Bee Dance (Waggle Dance) Honeybee Waggle Dance Experiment

Here are the links to the aphasia videos that I had hoped to show in today’s class.  You’ll recognize the audio portions, which we did manage to listen to…hopefully the video will help to better illustrate the exact nature of these language disturbances. Broca’s Aphasia Wernicke’s Aphasia Also, here is a video concerning anomic aphasia, …

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If you’d like to see the full version (~10 minutes) of the video on so-called “split-brain” individuals that we watched in today’s class, here’s a link: Two Brained Man Video

If you’d like to listen again to our demonstrations of the “phoneme restoration effect” from class (or if you missed them the first time around), you can find links to the sound files at this page: Warren Perception Lab:  Auditory Demonstrations We listened to the files entitled “Temporal Induction of Speech: Single Phonemic Restoration” and …

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Here are the links to the “McGurk Effect” videos that we watched in Monday’s class.  If you found that the effect wasn’t so clear for you in class, try watching the videos again up close, and be sure to watch the speakers’ mouths: McGurk Effect #1 McGurk Effect #2  

As you undoubtedly know, our class meeting for this morning has been cancelled. In light of this cancellation, I have decided to postpone our in-class quiz until this Friday, Nov. 2.  This way, you will still have a chance in Wednesday’s class to ask any study questions.  So, our updated schedule for this week is: …

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