33.910, FYI: Virtual Talk: The Boundaries of Linguistic Determinants of Verbal Working Memory

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-910. Wed Mar 09 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.910, FYI: Virtual Talk: The Boundaries of Linguistic Determinants of Verbal Working Memory

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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:24:49
From: Chia-Yu Lin [ariealrc at mcmaster.ca]
Subject: Virtual Talk: The Boundaries of Linguistic Determinants of Verbal Working Memory

 
The Centre for Advanced Research in Experimental and Applied Linguistics
(ARiEAL) is housed within the Faculty of Humanities at McMaster University,
Canada. The next ARiEAL Speaker Series (Monday, April 4, 2022, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
ET) will be delivered online by Dr. Steve Majerus. Dr. Majerus is a Research
professor funded by the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research FNRS and he
directs the Psychology & Neuroscience of Cognition research unit at the
University of Liège, Belgium. He has been a visiting scientist at the MRC
Cognition and Brain sciences unit in Cambridge, the University of Sussex and
the University of Hong Kong. He has been an invited professor at the
University of Fribourg. He is currently associate editor for the journal
Memory & Cognition and editor-in-chief for the journal Psychologica Belgica.
His research focuses on working memory and its interactions with language and
attention, using psychological and cognitive neuroscience methods.

Abstract:
Psycholinguistic effects, such as the lexicality effect (processing advantage
for words over nonwords) to name just one example, are a hallmark property of
verbal working memory (WM), having led to several linguistic WM accounts. In
this talk, Dr. Steve Majerus will examine the boundaries of these linguistic
accounts in the light of recent behavioral and neuroimaging data that aimed to
determine the automatic vs. strategic nature of linguistic effects in verbal
WM, the impact of linguistic variables on item vs. serial order maintenance
and the neural representations supporting short-term maintenance of linguistic
material. Dr. Majerus will show that linguistic knowledge and associated
neural substrates can account for a large set of verbal WM phenomena,
including some aspects of serial order retention, but also that verbal WM
cannot be reduced to pure linguistic accounts. Dr. Majerus will conclude the
talk by introducing the AO-WM model, an interactive and dynamic account of
verbal WM and linguistic processing.

Registration is required for this FREE event. Please RSVP at the ARiEAL Zoom
page to receive your personalized confirmation email:
https://mcmaster.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkfuCprzgrEtbroPP1CY2fS5IY5JDcBbHs
 



Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)





 



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