Maya Dewhurst, Lancaster University Nasality in Greater Manchester: (Aero)acoustics and variation Variation in voice quality is a socially meaningful phenomenon and plays an important role in acts of identity construction and group membership (Podesva and Callier, 2015). “Nasal voice”, or nasality, specifically, has been found to index a range of social characteristics (Bucholtz, […]
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Maiken Scott WHYY Why Talking About Science Matters (and How to Do it Well) Think about the last time a non-scientist asked you what you do for a living, or what you’re studying. Did you see their eyes glaze over as you tried to explain? Did they suddenly have to take an […]
Sarah Hye-yeon Lee Language and Cognition Lab University of Pennsylvania Signatures of individuation across objects and events The physical world provides humans with continuous streams of experience in both space and time. The human mind, however, can parse and organize this continuous input into discrete, individual units. In this talk, I will characterize […]
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Fritz Breithaupt Germanic Studies, Cognitive Science, and Comparative Literature Indiana University – Bloomington The Narrative Brain Through narratives we are able to reexperience past episodes and we are able to transform individual experience into shared experience. To […]