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PROSEM Lecture in Communicative Disorders

What Do Words Do? Towards a Theory of Language-Augmented Thought

Event Details

Date
Monday, September 17, 2012
Time
12 p.m.
Location
COMD GH62, Goodnight Hall
Description
Presented by Gary Lupyan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, UW-Madison.

In this talk I will focus on a fundamental property of language, using words to refer to objects in the environment. What consequences does such labeling have on cognitive and perceptual processes? To what extent is “normal” human cognition, actually language-augmented cognition? (Full abstract available upon request)
Cost
Free

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