anguage is a complex task and it has been thought that although learning is motivated by social interaction from birth, which the process of learning words relies more on the computational ability of the human brain. (Hoff and Naigles, 2002) found that the more input of the maternal caregiver, the faster language was learnt. This found that toddlers learning of language was not related to the nature of social engagement between them and the mothers. Chomsky, 1968 argued that language was innate and is categorised into surface structure and deep structure, however Karmiloff and Karmiloff-Smith (2001) criticised his theory and stated that researchers need to take into account of each of them to be able to explain their part of the story. Computers do not contain an innate knowledge of language and only know what has been input into them. However, scientists at Liverpool University have developed a set of algorithms so if the computer does not understand a word or sequence of words it is given, it will learn similar to humans in relation to language and look up the word to put it into a context the computer will understand. Bollegala, 2015, said that learning accurate word representations is the first step towards teaching language to computers. Cognitive processing theory has played a massive part in understanding language, it has addressed how children learn how to differentiate words out of a stream of sounds and found that toddlers’ brains are data crunching. (Saffron et al, 1999) used made up words inside random syllables to see whether children, adults and infants could differentiate the words from the random syllables. They found that infants listen to non-words longer which is new to them so they find it interesting. (Aslin, Saffron and Newport, 1998). This then led to them theorising that our brains are similar to a computer as they automatically use probability to pick out words from a sound stream so therefore computer analogy is sufficient because…..

Cognitive neuropsychologists find functions provide valuable information about cognitive scientology. Markoff, 2014 promised that a new chip IBM produced which functions like a brain, forming equivalent of one million neurons and has the cognitive capacity of a bee may in the near future be implanted in a human to assume functions in injured patients whose particular cognitive functions have been compromised. However, this has since been criticised as neurons are not a digital organism and should not be compatible with a digital computer. Computers have also influenced research on memory within humans, within this research extensive evidence has shown that computers and human brains are similar in relation to memory functions. The computers RAM (random access memory) and the humans STM (short term memory) are both capable of recalling immediate actions, only slight difference is when you turn off a computer the RAM is gone, furthermore this could also be likened to when the humans STM turns into LTM while we are sleeping. Another memory process which has striking resemblance is the computers hard drive and humans LTM (long term memory) this is where all data is located and information can be retrieved from them. However, research has shown that comp