23.2879, Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics/Italy

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Subject: 23.2879, Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics/Italy

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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:22:22
From: Margherita Donati [margherita-donati at libero.it]
Subject: Semantic Representations in the Blind

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Semantic Representations in the Blind 

Date: 05-Oct-2012 - 06-Oct-2012 
Location: Pisa, Italy 
Contact: Giovanna Marotta 
Contact Email: gmarotta at ling.unipi.it 
Meeting URL: http://blind.humnet.unipi.it 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Semantics 

Meeting Description: 

This conference intends to provide insights on the semantic representations in congenitally blind people from the perspectives of linguistics, vision and cognitive neurosciences, focusing on two domains where the relationship between language, conceptual structure and senso-motory information is particularly relevant, i.e. concrete terms and spatial language.

The conference brings together an international and interdisciplinary pool of experts facing the topic from several theoretical and methodological approaches.

Furthermore, the results of the Italian PRIN project 2008 Semantic representations in the language of the blind: linguistic and neurocognitive studies will be presented and discussed.

The conference is co-organized by Giovanna Marotta (University of Pisa), Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) and Marco Baroni (University of Trento). 

October 5, 2012

9.00
Greetings

9.15-9.45
G. Marotta (University of Pisa)
Introduction

9.45-10.45
K. Mcrae (University of Western Ontario)
A Link between Familiarity Impairments in Recognition Memory and Impairments in Familiarity Assessment for Concepts Acquired over the Lifetime

10.45-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-12.00
A. Oliva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT)
Visual Scene Understanding in Human and Machine Vision

12.00-13.00
A. Lenci & M. Baroni (University of Pisa & University of Trento)
Colorless Concepts: Semantic feature norms from the congenital blind

13.00-14.30
Lunch

14.30-15.30
J. Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
The Function of Space and the Space of Function

15.30-16.30
M. L. Noordzij (University of Twente)
On the Role of Visual Experience and Culture in Understanding and Giving Spatial Descriptions:  Theories, empirical findings and possible applications

16.30-16.45
Coffee break

16.45-17.45
C. Iacobini (University of Salerno)
Implicational Scales in Motion Event Encoding

17.45-18.45
L. Meini & M. Donati (University of Pisa)
Talking about Space: Evidence from blind and sighted people

20.00
Social dinner
 
October 6, 2012

9.00-10.00
P. Pietrini (University of Pisa)
The Blind Brain

10.00-11.00
T. Vecchi (University of Pavia)
The Effect of Visual Impairment on Spatial Representations

11.00-11.15
Coffee break

11.15-12.00
E. Ricciardi, A. Lenci, C. Gentili, G. Handjaras, G. Marotta & P. Pietrini (University of Pisa & University of Florence)
Neurosemantic Decoding in the Dark

12.00-13.00
Panel on the social life of blind

13.00
Conclusion







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