Month: June 2017

Members of The Word Lab will be presenting their research at the upcoming Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP) conference, which takes place 7-9 September 2017 in Lancaster.

Rachael Hulme will be presenting a poster, Becky Gilbert (who now works as a post-doc at the MRC CBU in Cambridge) will be giving a talk, and Lucy MacGregor (a researcher at the MRC CBU in Cambridge who has been collaborating with Jenni Rodd) will also be giving a talk.

Titles and links to the abstracts can be found below:

‘Acquisition and Long-Term Retention of New Meanings for Known Words’ – Rachael C. Hulme, Daria Barsky, and Jennifer M. Rodd (University College London). For a pdf of the poster click HERE.

‘Sentence-level learning mechanisms support lexical-semantic retuning during ambiguity resolution’ – Rebecca A. Gilbert^1,2, Matthew H. Davis², M. Gareth Gaskell³, Jennifer M. Rodd¹ (¹ University College London, ² MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, ³ University of York)

‘Neurocognitive mechanisms of semantic ambiguity resolution’ – Lucy J. MacGregor¹, Jennifer M. Rodd², Olaf Hauk¹, Ediz Sohoglu¹ and Matthew H. Davis¹ (¹ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, ² University College London)

Further information about the AMLaP 2017 conference can be found here: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/amlap2017/

Dr Jenni Rodd has been invited to give a keynote talk at the 7th biennual Experimental Pragmatics Conference in Cologne, Germany, 21-23 June 2017.

The title of her talk is: ‘How do listeners understand the meanings of ambiguous words?’

Further details about the conference can be found here: http://xprag2017.uni-koeln.de/27016.html

Dr Jenni Rodd will be giving a talk and Lena Blott will be presenting a poster at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, which will take place in London 26-29 July 2017.

Titles and links to the abstracts can be found below:

‘The role of learning mechanisms in understanding spoken words’ – Jennifer M. Rodd¹, Rebecca A. Gilbert^1,2, Hannah N. Betts¹, Matthew H. Davis², and M. Gareth Gaskell³

(¹Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, ²MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, ³University of York)

The slides for Jenni’s talk are available HERE.

‘Language Modality Affects Responses in Left IFG during Processing of Semantically Ambiguous Sentences’ – Lena M. Blott¹, Jennifer M. Rodd², and Jane E. Warren¹

(¹Department of Language and Cognition, University College London ; ²Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London

Further details about the meeting can be found here: http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/cogsci2017/