This one is a bit dense… So although it isn’t terribly lengthy I decided to break it up into three parts so you don’t fry your brain on it 
Although this is extremely foundational information, I believe it is important to know what exactly is going on in a person’s brain while you are talking to them. Hopefully this will give you a different view of the neurology that is transpiring as you speak… So let’s get right into it.
The most renowned and referenced model of the listener is known as the Geschwind-Wernicke’s model which proposes that there are distinct areas of the brain that handle specific functions. So perception, comprehension and speech production is by a specific model and each of these models is serially linked. This means that they have to happen in sequence. The “serial” component is the spark of much debate and many neurologists are leaning more toward a “parallel” and interactive functioning model. However, the locus of specific processing seems to be very accurate and this model is the basis of most research in language processing and production.
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In the next post we will talk about the mental lexicon and the development of meaning to the listener.
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