This document summarizes a research paper on cognitive processes associated with language. It discusses how attention, both visual and auditory, plays an important role in language processing. The paper also notes that linguistic rules address productivity and regularity in language. Key areas of the brain involved with language include Broca's area, which controls speech, and Wernicke's area, which processes language. The conclusion is that language allows for greater learning and social interaction, and cognitive psychology can be used to examine and research language processing.

1. Cognitive Process Associated with Language
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Running head: COGNITIVE PROCESS ASSOCIATED WITH
LANGUAGE
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COGNITIVE PROCESS ASSOCIATED WITH LANGUAGE
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Attention and Language
Linguistics is the study of natural languages, which is
distinctively different from psychology. Linguistic research is
extremely important and has contributed greatly to field of
psychology of language. Comparatively, linguistics creates
rules that address both productivity and the regularity of natural
language. An examination of grammar reveals that there are
three rules that require attention in language (syntactic (words
and inflection), semantic (meaning of sentences), and
phonological (sound or auditory). Pashler (1998), asked the
question “how much visual information can we take in at one
time?” What can we do with this information, and do we
recognize objects one at a time, or can we recognize a large

2. number simultaneously?” These questions came from the
thought of analyzing divided attention.
It should be noted attention has been researched for more then
twenty-five years. When a child is born and they become
conscious, they may not know that they almost immediately
begin to pay attention. Throughout life one cannot do more
than one thing at a time unless they are conscious of it.
According to Anderson (2010), “attention, like consciousness,
is a unitary system.” Pashler (1995) suggest that attention is
multifaceted, and uses the example that people unconsciously
move their eyes, which seems to have merit. Where was the last
place the eye was focused on? It is important to know that
auditory attention is different than visual attention, and the way
a person perceives information received in the cognitive state
will determine the response. When there are several things
going on, a person sometimes gets overloaded with data, thus
creating a bottleneck in their attention. At that time focusing or
concentrating on one thing is appropriate. Both visual and
auditory attention take time to fully incorporate into one’s
cognitive domain, but as one matures and gain experience it
becomes easier allocate resources to process information.
Conclusion
The neurological regions that deal with the processing and
understanding of language include Broca’s area in the left
hemisphere of the brain, as well as Wernicke’s area in the rear
of the left hemisphere of the brain. Broca’s area is the central
learning area of the brain, whereas Wernicke’s area that
processes language. Language is a highly complicated process
that includes not only speech, but body language, and sign
language for those who are speech impaired (Anderson, 2010).
Since the aspects of cognitive psychology include problem
solving, decision making, learning, and speaking, to name a
few, all correlate to language and language processing. Thus,
language and all of it’s processing can be explained, examined,
and researched through the scientific procedures of cognitive
psychology.

3. Some question whether language is dependent on thought or if
thought is dependent on language (Pimsleur, 2014). The mind
can perceive the smallest of details even without the individual
being aware. Small children see these details and incorporate
them in their study of language and how to speak. Adults do
the same but not as intensely as the foundation of language has
been laid in the formative years but details still emerge that are
of interest to the mind and are used to enhance the mind of the
observer. Language allows for greater learning, fellowship with
friends and family. Language provides humans the ability to
display expressions of love and dislike, sharing of memories,
and teaching to those important and unimportant. Without
language, the world as we know it would be very still and
silent.
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Pimsleur, B. (2014). How language is processed in the brain.
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research/language/how-language-is-processed-in-the-brain/
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