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CATEGORIES:Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
SUMMARY:Understanding the minds of others: A psycholinguis
 tic approach to Theory of Mind - Dr Heather Fergus
 on\, Department of Linguistics\, University Colleg
 e London
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20081030T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20081030T183000
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/14453
DESCRIPTION:During conversation it is often necessary to infer
  other peoples' beliefs\, intentions and emotions 
 to understand and predict their behaviour (termed\
 ntheory of mind- ToM). Although considerable resea
 rch has examined the perception of mental states i
 n general\, conclusions on the specific processes 
 involved in inferring\, maintaining and selecting 
 appropriate\nperspectives during communication hav
 e so far been limited by offline response-based me
 thods. Further\, the role of language in 'mindread
 ing' tasks has only recently emerged as an importa
 nt issue following neuropsychological evidence tha
 t traditional ToM brain areas are also active for 
 linguistic coherence processes. In this talk\, I w
 ill present a series of experiments that use estab
 lished online techniques from psycholinguistics to
  examine issues such as the automaticity of belief
  attributions and the specific role of higher-leve
 l language (through comparisons with counterfactua
 l conditionals) in ToM processes. Finally\, I will
  discuss how these findings relate to evidence fro
 m social psychology in support of a gender bias in
 \ncognition.\n
LOCATION:LG17\, Law Faculty\, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
CONTACT:Catherine Davies
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