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Conference

Three Word Lab Posters at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society

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Granada, Spain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Three members of the Word Lab, Jenni Rodd, Hannah Betts and Becky Gilbert, will be presenting posters of their research at the International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society which will take place 5-8th May 2016 in Granada, Spain.

 

The titles of the posters and links to the abstracts can be found below:

‘Listeners use experience across a range of timescales to guide the interpretation of ambiguous words.’ – Jennifer Rodd and Zhenguang Cai.

‘Effects of Massed and Spaced Repetitions on Word-Meaning Priming.’ – Hannah Betts, Zhenguang Cai, and Jennifer Rodd.

‘Associative vs. Error-Driven Accounts of Learning in Word-Meaning Priming.’ – Rebecca Gilbert, Zhenguang Cai, Jane Warren, Matthew Davis, and Jennifer Rodd.

 

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Word Lab Poster at the International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC)

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Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Eva Poort will be presenting a poster about her research at the International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC) which takes place 14-15th April 2016 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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

‘Does the cognate facilitation effect depend on task demands?’ – Eva Poort and Jennifer Rodd.

A pdf of the poster can be downloaded HERE.

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Word Lab Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders Conference

Eva will be presenting a poster about her research at the Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2015 conference in Marche En Famenne, Belgium on 21st-22nd May.

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

‘Processing of cognates and interlingual homographs in L2 is affected by recent experience with these words in L1’ – Eva Poort, Jane Warren and Jennifer Rodd.

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PhD Posters at the UCL PPG Cumberland Lodge Conference

Three PhD students in the Word Lab will be presenting posters of their research at the UCL PPG Cumberland Lodge Conference which will take place 27th-28th April. Links to these posters can be found below:

Update:

Following the Cumberland Lodge conference this week, we are pleased to announce that Eva was named the runner up in the poster competition. Congratulations, Eva!

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Word Lab Talks at January EPS Meeting

Three members of the word lab will be giving talks at the EPS Meeting which will take place 8-9 January 2015 at the Department of Experimental Psychology at UCL. The titles and authors of the talks are listed below:

  • Zhenguang (Garry) Cai (UCL): ‘Embodied conceptualization in language production’
  • Grzegorz Maciejewski and Jennifer Rodd (UCL): ‘Does meaning acquisition entail meaning competition?’
  • Jennifer Rodd, Zhenguang (Garry) Cai, Matthew Davis, Gareth Gaskell
    (UCL, MRC CBU, Cambridge, University of York): ‘Speaker accent modulates access to word meanings’

Click HERE to see the full programme for the January EPS meeting including abstracts for the talks.

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Annual Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society: 9-10 January 2014, University College London

Jenni Rodd  was the local organiser for this meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society: 9-10 January 2014, University College London, and organised a symposium on “The Cognitive Neuroscience of Sentence Comprehension”.

The lab contributed to four talks and a poster at this meeting:

1) Sylvia Vitello, Joseph Devlin and Jennifer Rodd: Time course of resolving ambiguous speech when disambiguating information is delayed.

2) Patti Adank: The neural locus of semantic and syntactic processing: a meta-analysis.

3) Jane Warren: Resolving semantic ambiguity during sentence comprehension: the role of inferior frontal cortex.

4) Eva Denise Poort* and Jennifer Rodd: Cross-language long-term word-meaning priming of cognates and interlingual homographs.

All abstracts available HERE

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Society of the Neurobiology of Language: 2013 Annual Meeting in San Diego

The lab has contributed two posters and a talk to this meeting:

(1) The roles of left and right inferior frontal cortex in the comprehension of ambiguous sentences

Jennifer M. Rodd, Sylvia Vitello, Joseph T. Devlin, Jane E. Warren

Poster available HERE

Abstract HERE

 

(2) Neural responses to semantic ambiguities encountered during spoken sentences

Sylvia Vitello, Jane E. Warren, Joseph T. Devlin, Jennifer M. Rodd

Abstract HERE

 

(3) A meta-analysis of semantic and syntactic processing in language comprehension

Patti Adank, Sylvia Vitello, Anna Woollams, Jennifer Rodd

Abstract HERE