Category: Conference

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/

The Word Lab’s Rachael Hulme and Becky Gilbert (who now works as a post-doc at the MRC CBU in Cambridge) will be giving talks at the upcoming Experimental Psychology Society meeting in Reading, 12-14 July 2017.

The details of these talks and links to the abstracts can be found below:

“The Testing Effect in long-term retention from incidental and intentional vocabulary learning” – Rachael C. Hulme and Jennifer M. Rodd (University College London)

“Generalisation of recent word meaning experience across modalities: How we avoid barking up the wrong tree” – 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, Cambridge, ³ University of York)

Further details about the upcoming meeting (when released) can be found here: http://eps.ac.uk/

The Word Lab’s Becky Gilbert will be presenting a poster and Lucy MacGregor (a researcher at the MRC CBU in Cambridge who has been collaborating with Jenni Rodd) will be giving a talk  at the upcoming Experimental Psychology Society meeting, 4-6 January 2017.

The titles and links to the abstracts can be found below, along with a pdf of Becky’s poster:

‘New UK-Based Dominance Norms for Ambiguous Words.’ – Rebecca A. Gilbert, Hannah N. Betts, Rachel Jose, Jennifer M. Rodd [pdf of poster]

Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London

‘The neuromagnetic time-course of semantic ambiguity resolution in speech comprehension.’ – Lucy J MacGregor¹, Jennifer M Rodd², Olaf Hauk¹, Matthew H Davis¹

(¹ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge; ²University College London)

Further details about the upcoming meeting (when released) can be found here: http://eps.ac.uk/

Lucy MacGregor, a researcher at the MRC CBU in Cambridge, will be presenting a poster on research she has been working on in collaboration with Jenni Rodd at the Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2016. The symposium, which is an internal event for researchers in language sciences at the University of Cambridge, will take place on 17 November 2016.

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

‘The neuromagnetic time-course of semantic ambiguity resolution in speech comprehension.’ – Lucy J MacGregor¹, Jennifer M Rodd², Olaf Hauk¹, Matthew H Davis¹

(¹ MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge; ² University College London)

Further details about the symposium can be found here: http://www.languagesciences.cam.ac.uk/events/cambridge-language-sciences-annual-symposium-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.

Five members of the word lab will be presenting their research at the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) meeting which will take place 8-10 July 2016 in Oxford.

The titles for the talks/poster (and links to the abstracts) can be found below:

‘Effects of Massed and Spaced Repetitions on Word-Meaning Priming’ [Talk] – Hannah N. Betts and Jennifer M. Rodd (University College London, UK).

‘Temporal Precision in Short-Term Memory for Spoken Word Sequences’ [Talk] – Rebecca A. Gilbert¹, Graham J. Hitch², and Tom Hartley² (¹University College London, UK; ²University of York, UK).

‘How easily can we learn new meanings for known words from stories?’ [Poster] – Rachael Hulme, Dasha Barsky, and Jennifer Rodd (University College London, UK). [Pdf]

‘The cognate facilitation effect depends on stimulus list composition’ [Talk] – Eva D. Poort and Jennifer M. Rodd (University College London, UK).

‘Comparing Error-Driven and Associative Accounts of Word-Meaning Priming’ [Talk] – Jennifer M. Rodd¹, Rebecca A. Gilbert¹, Jane E. Warren¹, and Matthew H. Davis² (¹University College London, UK; ²MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK).