Month: September 2016

Eva Poort will be giving a talk about her research at the Conference on Multilingualism (COM) which takes place 11-13 September 2016 in Ghent, Belgium.

The title of the talk and a link to the abstract can be found below:

‘Response competition for cognates: The cognate facilitation effect depends on stimulus list composition.’ – Eva D. Poort and Jennifer M. Rodd (University College London, London, UK).

London, UK.

Barcelona, Spain.

Lucy MacGregor, a researcher at the MRC CBU in Cambridge, and Lena Holderer, a student at UCL, both recently presented posters on their research in collaboration with Jenni Rodd at conferences.

The details and links to their posters can be found below:

‘The neuromagnetic time course of semantic ambiguity resolution in speech comprehension.’ – Lucy J. MacGregor¹, Jennifer M. Rodd², Olaf Hauk¹, and Matt Davis¹ 
(¹MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK; ²University College London, London, UK). [Pdf]

Lucy presented this poster at the Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference in London, 17-20 August 2016.

‘Effects of language modality on the neural correlates of semantic ambiguity processing.’ – ¹Lena Holderer, ²Jennifer M. Rodd, and ¹Jane Warren (¹Department of Language and Cognition, University College London, London, UK; ²Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK). [Pdf]

Lena presented this poster at Society for the Neurobiology of Language Conference in London, 17-20 August 2016, and at the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section  Conference in Barcelona, Spain, 31 August – 2 September 2016.