Dr Jenni Rodd will be working at the MRC CBU in Cambridge as a Visiting Scientist in November/December 2016.
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Jenni Rodd, together with Dr Julie Evans (Faculty of Brain Sciences), has been awarded a UCL ChangeMakers grant worth £1200 for a project aimed at inspiring the next generation of UCL scientists.
The project team will create a set of 5 high-quality video interviews that highlight the amazing achievements of UCL scientists and help to make our students feel part of a community of world-leading research.
For info about applying for the next round of ChangeMakers funding: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/changemakers/projects
Dr Jenni Rodd will be an invited speaker at a workshop entitled ‘Word meaning: Interdisciplinary themes’. Her talk will be about ‘The Cognitive Mechanisms of Semantic Disambiguation’.
The slides from Jenni’s talk are available here: Slides – Cognitive Mechanisms of Semantic Disambiguation.pdf
The workshop will take place 2-3 November 2016 at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
Further details can be found here: http://lex-meaning-concepts.wixsite.com/wordmeaningworkshop
Dr Jenni Rodd will be giving a Lunch Hour Lecture entitled: ‘Barking up the right tree: How do we understand what words mean?’
‘If you look up just about any word in a dictionary you will usually see a long list of possible definitions, yet it takes no apparent effort to figure out the intended definition of a word when it is used in everyday life. Dr Jenni Rodd will talk about the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to make rapid ‘best guesses’ about a word’s meaning.’
When: 13:15-13:55 on Tuesday 18th October.
Where: Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT (access via Malet Place).
This lecture is free and open to all, so please do come along!
Further information is available here: http://events.ucl.ac.uk/event/event:s2n-is5uz5in-rn5qji/lunch-hour-lectures-barking-up-the-right-tree-how-do-we-understand-what-words-mean
The Word Lab’s very own Dr Jenni Rodd was recently featured on an episode of The Allusionist podcast entitled ‘This Is Your Brain On Language’.
Listen to the podcast here:
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.
We are pleased to announce that Dr Jenni Rodd, the Principle Investigator in the Word Lab, has been promoted to Reader. Congratulations, Jenni!
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).
Two of the Word Lab PhD students presented their research at this year’s UCL PPG Cumberland Lodge Conference, which took place 18-19th April.
Eva Poort gave a talk entitled ‘Does the cognate facilitation effect depend on stimulus list composition?’.
Rachael Hulme presented a poster entitled ‘How easily can we learn new meanings for known words from stories?’ – A pdf of the poster can be downloaded HERE.
We are pleased to announce that Rachael was named the runner up in the poster competition and was awarded the Cecily de Monchaux Research Prize. Congratulations, Rachael!
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