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Basnakova, et al. (2013) found that computing the _____ meaning of a sentence engages the same parts of the brain that are involved in figuring out what someone else is thinking.  These are known as the Theory of Mind Network.

The literal meaning of an utterance is captured by its _____.

In Hayes & Flower’s (1980) model of writing, _____ sometimes occurs automatically and sometimes under conscious control.

Someone intended to say “He has already packed two trunks” but instead said “He has already packs two trunked.”  The speech error is an example of a _____.  Errors like this show  that _____ are an important functional unit in speech production. 

Two words are more likely to be involved in a speech error if they sound alike.  Dell’s (1986) interactive activation model of speech production can explain this phenomenon because it allows _____ units to influence the activation level of _____ units.

Mason & Just (2004) found that activation in the prefrontal cortex increases when the strength of the causal connection between sentence pairs increases, but that activation in the right hemisphere is strongest for intermediate levels of causal relatedness.  This represents a double dissociation between _____ and _____. 

Our ability to discover all of the causal and enabling connections in a narrative is limited _____.

A Spoonerism like “You have hissed all my mystery lectures” (instead of “You have missed all my history lectures” is an example of a type of speech error called a(n) _____.

A speaker can not make a sincere request if _____.

Watch the video clip, and answer the questions at the end in the space below. https://player.vimeo.com/video/1153727574?fl=ml&fe=ec