Albert Kim Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Lab University of Colorado Real time human language comprehension: Predictive processing in an unpredictable world In order to comprehend human language in real time, readers and listeners make predictions about the upcoming linguistic input. Predictions enable comprehenders to prepare in advance for rapidly unfolding, pervasively ambiguous linguistic […]
Events
We will also stream this seminar via Zoom. For the link, please contact us: pennmindcore@sas.upenn.edu Sarah Robins Department of Philosophy Purdue University The Engram Renaissance Memory traces have a long history. For Plato, they were birds in aviaries; for William James, they were furniture in the mind’s rooms. They’ve also been phonographic records, […]
Aini Li Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Co-occurrence, extension, and social salience: The emergence of indexicality in an artificial language We investigated the emergence of sociolinguistic indexicality using an artificial-language-learning paradigm. Sociolinguistic indexicality involves the association of linguistic variants with nonlinguistic social or contextual features. Any linguistic variant can acquire “constellations” of […]