Workshop "Understanding the meaning of words and sentences: The role of non-linguistic processes"
September 2012, 16th-19th
Department of Psychology, Schleichstraße 4, 72076 Tübingen
Hörsaal (Room 4.329)
Schedule
| Sunday, 16th | |
| 19:00 | Welcome Dinner (Forelle, Kronenstraße 8) |
Monday, 17th | |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Welcome |
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Ruth Filik, University of Nottingham How do we understand irony? A multi-method approach. |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Rasha Abdel Rahman, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The influence of emotional context and style of speech on language comprehension. |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Lars Konieczny, Universität Freiburg t.b.a. |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Daniel Bub, University of Victoria What John did with a cellphone and why: On the temporal dynamics of hand action representations evoked during sentence comprehension. |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Benjamin K. Bergen, University of California, San Diego A new perspective on grammatical person. |
| 15:30 – 17:30 | Poster session (with coffee and snacks) |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Punting trip on the river Neckar |
Tuesday, 18th | |
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Gerry Altmann, York University Objects compete with themselves: The role of non-linguistic competition during event comprehension. |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 11:30 | Frank Durgin, Swarthmore College Predictive efficiency as a source of error in perception and language processing. |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Pienie Zwitserlood, Universität Münster Identifying and naming actions: Fast uptake of visual information from action scenes. |
| 12:15 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Berry Claus, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Non-linguistic processes and sentence modality: Desiderative mode and approach/avoidance actions. |
| 14:45 – 15:30 | Rolf Ulrich, Universität Tübingen Representational overlap of time and space. |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Silvia Gennari, York University Representing time and space in cognition. |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Julio Santiago, Universidad de Granada Reading direction effects on language comprehension: short-term versus long-term influences. |
| 18:00 | Dinner and drinks (Gästehaus Lessingweg, Lessingweg 3) |
Wednesday,19th | |
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Barbara Kaup, Universität Tübingen When up-words meet down-sentences: Evidence for word- or sentence-based compatibility effects? |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Eiling Yee, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language Word meaning can be quite handy (and shapely!) |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Rolf Zwaan, Erasmus University Rotterdam t.b.a. |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Final Discussion |