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Mike Dickey · Automatic processing and recovery of complex sentences in aphasia

2012-02-06T03:18:10.000Z

Feb 24, 2012
The production and the comprehension of syntactically complex sentences is impaired in aphasia. For example, both Wh-movement sentences (such as object-extracted relative clauses) and NP-movement sentences (such as passives) elicit chance performance by adults with aphasia in off-line comprehension tasks like sentence-picture matching. However, it remains unclear how exactly impaired adults try (and often fail) to comprehend such sentences in real time. This talk reviews evidence from a series of studies examining the real-time comprehension of both simple sentences (Sung, et al., 2009, 2011) and complex sentences (Dickey & Thompson, 2004, 2009; Dickey, et al, 2007) by adults with aphasia. The evidence suggests that significant residual capacity for syntactic processing remains following brain-damage, capacity which may go undetected using traditional off-line methods. Furthermore, this intact capacity may be what underlies successful response to language treatment targeting complex sentences (Dickey & Thompson, 2007). Language treatment which directly stimulates aphasic adults' capacity to use this residual ability has significant evidence of efficacy, and tasks which tap this ability may be useful in predicting treatment ouctomes in aphasia (Dickey & Yoo, 2010).

IGERT Lunch: Shevaun Lewis, LING

2012-02-24T15:51:14.000Z

When: Thu Mar 1, 2012 12:30pm to 1:30pm EST

Where: St Mary's Hall
Event Status: confirmed

Undergraduate Open House

2012-02-08T20:10:55.000Z

When: Fri Mar 2, 2012 11am to 12pm EST

Where: 1401G MMH
Event Status: confirmed

Ruth Kramer

2012-02-06T03:18:45.000Z

When: Fri Mar 2, 2012 2pm to 3:30pm EST

Where: 1304 Marie Mount Hall
Event Status: confirmed

Open House for prospective students

2012-02-06T03:20:04.000Z

When: Thu Mar 8, 2012 to Sat Mar 10, 2012

Event Status: confirmed

Ian Apperly · What is Theory of Mind? Concepts, cognitive processes and individual differences

2012-02-06T03:19:37.000Z

Mar 8, 2012
More than thirty years of research has examined “theory of mind” in non-human animals, human infants, children and adults, and human brains. This work has led to many insights, but, if anything, the object of study has become less clear as the weight of evidence has increased. By turns, researchers conceptualise “theory of mind” as a set of concepts, a collection of cognitive processes, and an individual difference variable. I shall argue that these conceptions all have their virtues, but that it is unhelpful to confound them and probably unwise to try to investigate them all with the same narrow set of experimental tasks. Newly-emerging methods have great potential for advancing our understanding of “theory of mind”, all the more so if we refine our ideas about what we are studying, and why.

Terje Lohndal · Without Specifiers: Phrase Structure and Events

2012-02-06T03:21:22.000Z

When: Mon Mar 12, 2012 1pm to 3pm EDT

Where: Marie Mount Hall 3418
Event Status: confirmed

Chair Candidates

2012-02-14T17:36:38.000Z

When: Fri Mar 30, 2012 2pm to 4pm EDT

Where: room 1304 MMH
Event Status: confirmed

Undergraduate Open House

2012-02-08T20:12:12.000Z

When: Fri Mar 30, 2012 11am to 12pm EDT

Where: 1401G
Event Status: confirmed

Achille Varzi, Paul Pietroski · PHLINC 1: Symposium on Events

2012-02-06T03:21:48.000Z

When: Sat Mar 31, 2012 to Sun Apr 1, 2012

Who: umdling@gmail.com
Event Status: confirmed

Melinda Carpenter

2012-02-06T03:22:57.000Z

When: Thu Apr 5, 2012 3:30pm to 5:30pm EDT

Where: Bioscience Research Building 1103
Event Status: confirmed

Undergraduate Open House

2012-02-08T20:09:19.000Z

When: Fri Apr 6, 2012 11am to 12pm EDT

Where: 1401G MMH
Event Status: confirmed

Misha Becker

2012-02-06T03:23:21.000Z

When: Fri Apr 6, 2012 2pm to 3:30pm EDT

Where: 1304 Marie Mount Hall
Event Status: confirmed

Albert Kim

2012-02-06T03:23:47.000Z

When: Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:30pm to 5:30pm EDT

Where: Bioscience Research Building 1103
Event Status: confirmed

Undergraduate Open House

2012-02-08T20:15:13.000Z

When: Fri Apr 20, 2012 11am to 12pm EDT

Where: 1401G
Event Status: confirmed

Bradley Duchaine

2012-02-06T03:24:12.000Z

When: Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:30pm to 5:30pm EDT

Where: Bioscience Research Building 1103
Event Status: confirmed

Anders Ericsson

2012-02-06T03:25:16.000Z

When: Thu May 3, 2012 3:30pm to 5:30pm EDT

Where: Bioscience Research Building
Event Status: confirmed

Mayfest: Computational models in linguistic theory

2012-02-06T03:25:37.000Z

When: Fri May 4, 2012 to Sat May 5, 2012

Where: linguistic theory
Event Status: confirmed