coggroup September 2017

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[Coggroup] CRAM Session: Friday, September 29
by Mehrgol Tiv 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Dear all, Dr. Floris van Vugt (McGill Psychology), a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. David Ostry, will be speaking at the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Session this Friday, September 29, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College). His talk is titled “Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps" For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found here<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series>. ———————————————— "Learning Novel Sensorimotor Maps" Floris T van Vugt, McGill University Imagine that you are first learning to talk or to play a music instrument. How do you learn which movement to use to produce a particular sound? Existing research has focused extensively on motor and perceptual learning in isolation, but has left unsolved the fundamental puzzle of how mappings between them are formed in the first place. In this talk, I present a paradigm to study how sensorimotor maps are initially formed, through a task that involves learning to reproduce sounds by making arm movements. Since our arm movements normally do not make sounds, participants in these studies are in much the same position as infants who have to learn from scratch which sounds result from particular movements of their vocal apparatus. A computational model of this task motivates a set of predictions, which are tested in a series of experiments. ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com>

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[Coggroup] CRAM Session: Friday, September 22
by Mehrgol Tiv 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Dear all, Professor Debra Titone (McGill Psychology) will be the inaugural speaker of the CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) Sessions this Friday, September 22, 11:45-12:45 PM (Room 735, 2001 McGill College). Her talk is titled “Eye Movement Studies of Reading in Bilinguals” For a full abstract, see below the dashed line. Please join us at this event! The full speaker list can be found here<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/events-colloquia-0/brownbag-series>. ——————————————— Eye Movement Studies of Reading in Bilinguals Debra Titone, Department of Psychology, McGill University Eye movement investigations have long been crucial for building a comprehensive understanding of the cognitive and perceptual processes that support reading and other language processes because of their naturalness and great temporal precision (reviewed in Rayner, Pollatsek, Ashby & Clifton, 2012). Indeed, most of what we know about psycholinguistics has been deeply informed by eye movement reading data, including the fundamentals of word processing, contextual effects, grammatical interpretation, and higher-level aspects of language such as figurative or emotional effects on language. Of relevance here, much of this work has historically focused on university-aged monolingual (or presumed monolingual) readers. However, in recent years, eye movement studies of reading have been extended to a variety of “special” populations, many of which are actually quite common. In this talk, I present some of the work from my laboratory that has used eye movement measures to study a variety of psycholinguistic questions about reading in different populations, such as healthy bilingual younger and older adults. Across these populations, I will focus on the interplay between local word-level processing and more global influences of context, such as what arises from variations in sentential constraint or the interpretive demands of figurative language. ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com/>

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[Coggroup] Fwd: LINGUISTICS Colloquium Announcement: Jie (Jay) Li (Friday, September 15th) (fwd)
by Kris Onishi 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

i've been asked to circulate this announcement for a talk in linguistics. -------- Forwarded Message -------- [cut] Good afternoon, We are thrilled to announce that the McGill Linguistics Colloquium Series will include a talk co-hosted with the Department of East Asian Studies. The talk will be given by Jie Li from Shantou University on Friday, September 15th at 3:30 pm in room 433 of the Education Building. The title of the talk is "Grammatical Metaphor Theory in Pursuit of Metaphorical Competence". Please find the abstract at the end of this message. All are welcome to attend! For more information on upcoming events in the McGill Linguistics department, please see our website (http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/events). unsubscribe Sincerely, Jeffrey Lamontagne On behalf of the McGill Colloquium Committee ------------------------------ Grammatical Metaphor Theory in Pursuit of Metaphorical Competence Abstract: Grammatical Metaphor is one of the important concepts in Systemic-Functional Grammar. Halliday (1994) took grammatical metaphor as a linguistic strategy for variation in the expression of a meaning. The language system provides language users with a system of meaning potential, from which language users make a series of choices to realize a certain semantic function. The relation between the chosen linguistic structure and the meaning expressed can be either congruent or incongruent/ metaphorical. Children gradually learn to speak metaphorically, and the emergence of more metaphorical expressions is an important feature of adult language. Denesi (1993) claimed that speaking metaphorically is a basic characteristic of native speakers linguistic competence. In other words, the ability of understand and use metaphors can be taken as an important symbol for the good mastery of a language. Therefore, it is both necessary and important to value metaphorical competence in language education. With the guidelines of the grammatical metaphor theory, this talk is going to analyze the nature, the complexity and the functions of metaphorical forms so as to help language learners with their knowledge and mastery of the metaphorical phenomena in their target language, and finally reach the goal of improving their linguistic competence by enhancing their ability to understand and use metaphors.

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[Coggroup] Cognitive Research at McGill (CRAM): FALL 2017
by Mehrgol Tiv 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Dear all, CRAM, or Cognitive Research at McGill, is a seminar series that will begin this fall. The aim is to showcase the exemplary cognitive researchers in the department as well as introduce speakers conducting impactful research & applied work in cognitive-based areas in the Montreal and global scientific communities. The full schedule of speakers has not been finalized, but I encourage you to mark your calendars for Fridays from 11:45-12:45 in Room 735 of 2001 McGill College. The speaker series will kick-off on September 22. If you would like to be added to the cognitive email list, you can subscribe here: http://mx0.psych.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/coggroup. Please let me know if you would like to be removed from this list. Otherwise, additional information regarding the speakers will be sent out soon. Best, Mehrgol ___________________________________ Mehrgol Tiv Ph.D. Student, Psychology, McGill University Language and Multilingualism Lab *mehrgoltiv.com<http://mehrgoltiv.com/>

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