26.3697, Calls: Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Subject: 26.3697, Calls: Psycholinguistics/Germany

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:42:17
From: Tom Fritzsche [tom.fritzsche at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: The Attentive Listener in the Visual World

 
Full Title: The Attentive Listener in the Visual World 
Short Title: ATTLIS 

Date: 10-Mar-2016 - 11-Mar-2016
Location: Potsdam, Germany 
Contact Person: Tom Fritzsche
Meeting Email: attlis2016 at uni-potsdam.de
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/theattentivelistener/attlis2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Oct-2015 

Meeting Description:

The workshop's theme is multi-modal cognition with an emphasis on the interaction between language and vision. More specifically, there is a central focus on how attentional and visual processes interact with spoken and written language processing. Why are attention and vision crucial to language comprehension? Prominent approaches to language-vision interactions have focused so far on whether language processing is like sensory processing (the 'embodied cognition approach') or whether cross-linguistic differences lead to permanent restructuring of cognition and perception (the 'linguistic relativity approach'). We know, however surprisingly little about the nature, representations, and mechanisms of every-day language-vision interactions such as when language guides our attention around the visual world. Core themes of the workshop are the (non)-intentionality of language-vision interactions, the nature of competition, selective processing, learning and development which suggest tha
 t the investigation of language-vision interactions by means of methods such as eye-tracking offers a window into the mechanisms of how high level representations involved in language and memory interact with visual input. The workshop seeks to encourage discussions which advance the field in important ways and lead to close collaborations between the participating researchers.

Invited Speakers:

- Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University, USA)
- Christoph Scheepers (University of Glasgow, UK)
- Nicole Altvater-Mackensen (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

The program will be available on the conference website.

Call for Papers:

We invite submissions of visual world studies for 30 min presentations (20 min talk + 10 min discussion) or posters relating to one (or more) of the following questions:

- What kind of visual and linguistic information is considered by listeners to guide their visual attention and what is the time course of their integration?
- How do different sources of information interact?
- What role do individual differences (i.e. memory capacity, linguistic or visual skills, age, selective impairments) play in integrating visual and spoken information?
- In what way do different contexts and instructions affect visual attention during listening?
- What are the developmental trajectories for integrating visual and spoken information?
- What is the relation between perceptual cues and mental representations?
- What are the limitations of the ''visual world'' with respect to conclusions regarding the real world?

An abstract should be anonymous and comprise of one page with the title of the talk and up to 500 words of self-contained text, plus an optional second page for figures, additional descriptions, and references.

Please submit your abstract (preferably as PDF file) via EasyAbs.
You can choose whether you submit for a poster presentation, for a talk, or for either.




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