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Building Meaning From Language
Tufts University Initiative on Emerging Trends in Psychology
June 14 - June 19, 2007
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Sponsored by American Psychological Association and Tufts University
Introduction
How do we extract meaning from language and from the world
around us? This question is fundamental but complex. We must
consider how we combine words and sentences together into
connected discourse, how we make use of our prior perceptual
experience and knowledge, how we distinguish between what is
functionally relevant and irrelevant in action, how we represent
and generate constructs such as time, space and causation, and
how we integrate language with our nonverbal world. Finally we
must examine how these representations and processes are
instantiated in the human brain.
To address these questions, a group of twelve speakers (ten
external and two internal to Tufts) have been carefully selected
from several fields including Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics,
Psycholinguistics, Computational Modeling, Primate Neuroscience
and Cognitive Neuroscience. Visit the
Speakers page
to see our exciting line-up.
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