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LSLT: Xinchi Yu (NACS)

Time: 
Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: 
Language Science Center and Zoom (https://go.umd.edu/lslt-zoom)

 

How do we represent event structure? Insights from behavioral and neural evidence

Abstract: We know something about how our brains represent single objects, but we know much less about how our brains represent events, i.e. relations or structures between/among objects. This talk focuses on our initial attempts towards answering the question of how events are represented, using “simple” one-agent-one-patient scenarios (e.g., where an elephant hits a lion). Our behavioral results indicated that it’s too simplistic to say that agents always have an attentional advantage compared to patients. We will also present the preliminary results from our EEG experiments, which suggested promising ERP signatures for the event vs. non-event and agent vs. patient comparisons. We will also discuss the relationship between these results and magnitude representation.

 

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