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William James USA
Considered the father of American Psychology, in his book "The principles of Psychology" considers the stream of thought, consciousness, time perception, memory, imagination, emotions, reason, abnormal phenomena as a vehicle to arrive to the natural process of language. -
Wilhelm Wundt - GERMANY
Consider as de founder of Psycholinguistic and creator of the experimental phsychology.
Apperception is what is incounciously inserted in the human brain, while perception is direct sensing or detecting. Language is incounciously inserted in our brains before we are born. -
Leonard Bloomfield - USA.
Promoted the study of language independently from psychology.
creator of structural linguistic on his book "Language" his reasearch ephasized the scientific basis of linguistic attached to behaviour. -
J. R. Kantor - USA
First to use the term "Psycholinguistic", in his book "An objective psychology of grammar" (Kantor, 1936) he stands language is a natural process betweek organism and environment. His pupils made his term famous. -
McCulloch and Pitts - USA
The cerator of connectionism, The integrate and fire model was the most prominen representation on how neurones sparks while language is produce, how they collect activation from other neurons and fire in a flare of words. -
Karl Lashley - USA
Psycholinguistic re-emerge with his article "The problem of serial order and behaviour" in which he refuses the reflex chain (stimuli triggers movement) instead he proposed a more cognitive theory based on central plans. -
Frederic Skinner USA
Creator of the behaviorism and pioneer to perform controversial experimental psychology. On regards to psycholinguistic he claims babies are empty vases ready to be filled with language, he also stands language acquisition is a cognitive Behaviour. -
Noam Chomsky USA
Chomsky believes language is an innate function of the human brain, some structures in our minds are responsible of the speech, Children do not need formal education to learn to speak. -
Arthur Blumenthal USA NY.
Consider the study of verbal learning based on gramatical funcion of random words verbal behaviour based on the result of the different messages. -
Steven Pinker CANADA
On his master piece "Computational learning theory " which is a way to understand leanguage acquisition in children, he bases learning on gramatical structures of the mother tongue to produce first speech. -
Jeffrey Elman - USA CA.
On His book "Recurrent neuronal Network" He stands congnition as a net in wich processing sequentially ordered stimuli leads to learning in different fields not only language learning. -
Gerken & Gomez
On their article "Infant artificial language, learning and language acquisition". they induce lenguage learning to children as adults are induced in the sentences processing -
Roberth M. Dekeyser
Dekayser stands that acquisition of the language is a connected brain process based on repetition, the most you repeat an activity the better you master to it.
