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SUMMARY:Bricks and mortars for building meanings - Dr Hugh Rabagliati (Uni
 versity of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20160211T160000Z
DTEND:20160211T173000Z
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CONTACT:Theodora Alexopoulou
DESCRIPTION:A key feature of human thought and language is compositionalit
 y\, the ability to bind preexisting\nconcepts and word meanings together i
 n order to express new ideas. In the talk\, I\nwill discuss psycholinguist
 ic evidence for how newly composed complex concepts are\nrepresented and h
 eld in mind. Our evidence suggests that the component parts of complex\nco
 ncepts are bound together using two different mechanisms\, binding by sync
 hrony and\nbinding by asynchrony. Consistent with the predictions of certa
 in compositional\nconnectionist models\, we show that complex concepts tha
 t can be bound together through\nsynchrony are processed as fast as single
  concepts\, while complex concepts that must be\nbound through asynchrony 
 elicit a reaction time cost. Binding by both synchrony and\nasynchrony hav
 e been suggested as solutions to the “binding problems” faced in both\
 nvision science and higher-level cognition\; our results suggest that thes
 e ideas can also\nexplain aspects of compositional language processing.
LOCATION:GR06/07\, English Faculty Building\, 9 West Road\, Sidgwick Site
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