COURSE OVERVIEW
This course is adapted from three required courses, SLHS1301, SLHS1402, SLHS4301, for the undergraduate and graduate major of speech-language-hearing sciences at University of Minnesota. It is intended to provide students with an overview of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuroscience pertinent to processes of human communication behavior and disorders of communication. Although it is intended for students who are majoring in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, students with some science background are welcome. Emphasis is on structural and functional relationships necessary for speech, language, hearing, and cognition although a general knowledge of the nervous system is first required. Topics include: gross anatomy of central and peripheral nervous systems; sensory systems, especially special systems (vision, auditory, gustatory), motor systems, and functional hemisphere and cortical organization. Neuropathology of stroke, progressive diseases, traumatic brain injury and other neurological disorders that result in cognitive or communication disorders are emphasized throughout the course, after an introduction to current diagnostic techniques.
This course fulfills three general student learning outcomes upon its completion.
• Students can identify, define and solve problems.
• Students can communicate effectively.
• Students will have acquired skills for effective citizenship and life-long learning
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to
1. Demonstrate knowledge of basic neuroanatomy and neurophysiology mechanisms instrumental to normal speech, language, cognition, and hearing
2. Explain blood supply to the CNS and describe protective mechanisms to the brain
3. Demonstrate understanding of basic brain/behavior correlates; describe functional organization of brain activity during activities such as repeating words, reading words, gesturing, listening and following simply auditory commands, writing a sentence, etc.
4. Explain the neurological basis for common pathologies in neurogenic communication disorders across the life-span.
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Lectures and Activities
1. Activities
2. Video materials
- Video: Language in the Brain
- Video: Human Computer Interface
- Brain Imaging Tools
video: How MRI works
video: PET Scan
video: Introduction to EEG
video: MEG
- Basic Neuroscience
video: The neuron
video: Action Potential
video: Synapse
video: Gross neuroanatomy
- Linguistics
Video: Intro to linguistics
Video: Why study linguistics
Video: Misconceptions about linguistics
Video: Vowels
Video: Consonants
Video: Sink or Think?
Video: Comedian teaching English
Video: Syllables
Video: Prosody
Video: Morphology
Video: Syntactic Tree
Video: Syntax: Movement and Trace
Video: Syntax: Garden Path Sentence
3. Lecture slides
- Chapter 1 Introduction to Neurolinguistics
- Background: Core Neuroscience concepts
- Background: Basic anatomical terms
- Milestones in neuroscience research
- Nobel prizes in neuroscience
- Chapters 2 & 3 Neurolinguistic Theories
- Chapter 4 Phonetics and Phonology
- Chapter 5 Morphology and Syntax
4. Software tools
- Brainvoyager Brain Tutor
For Windows, http://download.brainvoyager.com/bvbt/setup_bvbraintutor_v25.exe
For Mac, http://download.brainvoyager.com/bvbt/BVBrainTutorInstaller_v25_Mac64.dmg
- The Talairach Brain Atlas
- BESA simulator
- Besa Simulator
5. Research examples and clinical cases
1. Activities
2. Video materials
EEGLAB Basic Steps
- 1. Open/Import file Example (Varies depending on the EEG file format)
- 2. Set channel location
- 3. Remove bad channels
- 4. Filtering
- 5. Epoching (You may need to consider how to reject bad epochs here.)
- 6. Running ICA (You may need to consider how to reject bad ICs here.)
- 7. Baseline correction
- 8. Save separate event .set files
- 9. Averaging
ERPLAB Basic Steps
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. EventList, BINLISTER, Epoching
- 3. Artifacts and Averaging
- 4. Plotting and Filtering
- 5. Bin and Channel Operations
Neuroanatomy
3. Lecture slides
- Chapter 7 Semantics and Pragmatics
- Chapter 8 Reading and Writing
- Chapter 8 More on Reading and Writing
- Neuroanatomy
- Stroke and aphasia
- Meninges, Ventricles, CSF, and Blood Supply
- Cranial Nerves
4. Software tools
5. Research examples and clinical cases
- Research: fMRI study on mapping words in the brain
- Clinical case: Dyslexia
- Clinical cases: Dysgraphia
- Clinical cases: Dyscalculia
- Language in the Brain Broca's and Wernecke's aphasia
Clinical case: Phineas Gage Story
1. Activities
2. Video materials
Noam Chomsky
- Pinker on Chomsky
- On the structure of language
- On language and thought
- On language design
- On language diversity
- On language and creativity
3. Lecture slides
- Visual System
- Auditory System
- Speech Perception
- Dual Stream Speech Perception Model
- Speech Production Models
- Emotional and Linguistic Prosody
- Sign Language
- Bilingualism
- Language Evolution
4. Software tools
- Praat
- Video: Praat Tutorial
- Video: Praat Example: Pitch analysis 1
- Video: Praat Example: Pitch analysis 2
- Video: Praat Example: Pitch analysis 3
- Video: Praat Example: Pitch analysis 4
5. Research examples and clinical cases
- Audiovisual Integration: McGurck Effect
- Auditory Illusions
- MRI: Speaking Chinese
- MRI: Speaking English
- MRI: Producing L and R words
- Research: The Neanderthal Genome Project
- Research: How do dogs understand human language?
- Can a gorilla learn human language?
- Do parrots understand human language?
1. Activities
2. Video materials
- Bilingual brain
- Autism
- Peripheral auditory system
- Vestibular system
- Auditory transduction
- Central auditory system
- Visual system
3. Lecture slides
4. Databases for research
EEG databases:
EEG data for Machine learning
Pediatric epilepsy EEG data
EEG data for alcoholism
Other EEG experiments
Neuroscience databases:
Neuroscience databases including MRI/fMRI
Linguistic Research:
Wordnets in the world
Stanford parser
CMU parser
Speech corpora
Language corpora
English corpora
Child language data exchange system
5. Research examples and clinical cases
Research: Bilingual switch
Research: How does cochlear implant work?
Clinical case: Girl with half brain
Clinical case: cochlear implant activation
Clinical case: Traumatic Brain Injury
Testing Question.
The third video material of Week 2, "Syntax: Movement and Trace", is linked to an incorrect video.
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