Language storage and access
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The document explores how language is stored and accessed in the brain, emphasizing the roles of short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM). STM temporarily holds information for processing, while LTM contains learned knowledge and personal experiences. Semantic and episodic memories are also discussed, highlighting the organization and retrieval of knowledge.
Language storage and access
- 1. LANGUAGE STORAGE AND ACCESS: Name: Aleena Farooq. Roll no. 07. BS. English. (4TH Semester.) Language storage and access studies how language is stored in our brain and how do we access it when we need it. The ability of human to speak and to understand speech requires an enormous amount of brain resources. These resources have to manage information about many thousands of words with any syntactic construction and their interconnections not just to one another, but to meaning and to the structures that allow us to recognize. Language storage involves the brain. Some information stored min the Tempora which is short term memory (STM) and some information is stored in the long term memory (LTM) permanently. Sensory store is the storage house for both of these memories: What is the use of the sensory store? It maintains information long enough so that we can do additional processing to it. Working memory or short term memory (STM): 1. STM used to describe the fact that it holds information for a short time, while working memory refers to the processing capacity. 2. STM works as a temporary holding place for intermediate decisions. 3. Limited in size. 4. Chunking. 5. Working memory: there is a limited amount of processing capacity that you can use as you perform a problem. Long term memory (LTM): 1. Knowledge of how to do things, things we have learned, grammar rules, personal memories. 2. All knowledge that is not active. 3. Information that becomes active is retrieved from LTM and put in STM. 4. Anything we learn is first processed in STM and some of it is put into LTM. Semantic memory: Organized knowledge of words, concepts, symbols and objects. Motor skills, general knowledge, spatial knowledge , social skills. All information is organized semantically, but not tagged based on when it was learned. Episodic memory: 1) Holds traces of events specific time and place. 2) Memory of personal experiences.