[Probcogsci] Fwd: CRL Talk TODAY (in *CSB003*) @ 4pm - Gerry Altmann: "(Eye)tracking multiple worlds"

[Angela Yu]

Dear all,

Looks like an interesting talk this afternoon!

Best wishes,
Angela

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>> From: Jamie Alexandre <jdalexan at ucsd.edu>
>> Date: February 2, 2010 12:42:17 PM PST
>> To: talks <talks at crl.ucsd.edu>
>> Subject: CRL Talk TODAY (in *CSB003*) @ 4pm - Gerry Altmann:  
>> "(Eye)tracking  multiple worlds"
>>
>> Don't miss this afternoon's talk by Gerry Altmann, visiting from  
>> the Psycholinguistics Research Group at the University of York, UK  
>> ( http://homepage.mac.com/gerry_altmann/ ). Please also join us  
>> first (upstairs) for a happy half-hour (with food and drinks!) in  
>> CSB 215 at 3:30. All are welcome, so hope to see you there!
>>
>> Note: to accommodate a larger audience, the talk will be in CSB003  
>> (bottom floor, closer to Geisel library).  However, the room is  
>> occupied until 3:50, so please wait until after then before  
>> entering; there will be lots of seats (so come to happy hour  
>> upstairs first, instead!).
>>
>> *********************************************
>> CRL Happy Half Hour @ 3:30 in CSB 215
>> CRL Talk @ 4:00 in CSB 003
>> *********************************************
>>
>> (Eye)tracking multiple worlds
>> Gerry Altmann
>> (University of York, UK)
>>
>> The world about us changes at an extraordinary pace. If language is  
>> to have any influence on what we attend to, that influence has to  
>> be exerted at a pace that can keep up. In this talk I shall focus  
>> on two aspects of this requirement: The speed with which language  
>> can mediate visual attention, and the fact that the cognitive  
>> system can very efficiently make up for the fact that, to be  
>> expedient (i.e. to keep up with the changing world) we do not in  
>> fact refer to all the changes that are associated with, or  
>> entailed, by an event. Rather, we infer aspects of those changes.  
>> One example of this is through elaborative inference, and another  
>> is through the manner in which we track (often unstated) changes in  
>> the states of objects as those objects undergo change. The talk  
>> will conclude with data suggesting that multiple representations of  
>> the same object in different event-dependent states may compete  
>> with one another, and that this competitive process may bring both  
>> costs and benefits.
>>
>>
>>
>> Further along the road...
>>
>> 2/9 - David Barner: Default units in language acquisition
>> 2/16 - Jill Warker: Tips of the slongue: Using speech errors as a  
>> measure of learning
>> 2/23 - Anne Fernald (Stanford): Developing Fluency in  
>> Understanding: How it Matters
>> 3/9 - Chuck Clifton (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Stress  
>> Matters: Effects of Anticipated Lexical Stress on Silent Reading

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