Jesse Snedeker Department of Psychology Harvard University Meaning First: How conceptual structure could serve as the developmental and phylogenetic starting point for language This will be a speculative, wide ranging talk on a framework theory about how conceptual structures could carry most the weight in both language development and language evolution. I’ll argue […]
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Location: Room 357 Levin Building Feng Sheng and Scott Rennie Wharton Neuroscience Initiative University of Pennsylvania The neuroscience of branding Brands are a relatively recent symbolic system. How brands, and the companies they represent, are processed in the human brain remains poorly understood. Here in two fMRI studies, we try to answer […]
Coren Apicella Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania Before we got WEIRD: Hunter-gatherers and the evolutionary origins of cooperation Location: Tedori Family Auditorium, Levin Building lower level
Anna Papafragou Language and Cognition Lab University of Delaware From conceptual representations to linguistic meaning A standard assumption within psycholinguistics is that the act of speaking begins with the preverbal, conceptual apprehension of an event or state of affairs that the speaker intends to talk about. Nevertheless, the way conceptual representations are formed […]