Parallel processing: many aspects of brain processing occur simultaneously sentence spoken: i am sick of your attitude.: communicative context: speaker looks angry and was fighting because the boyfriend didnt like the party they attended. this has happened many times before. how does this occur: a. circuits of speech comprehension/production activated as per lectures b. the particular neural circuits of speech comprehension/production have been developed because the individual experienced these words and similar sentence structures during development and into adulthood.