Language Processing
Bilingual Code-switching: Exploring Variation in Comprehension Costs
Abstract: Bilinguals experience costs during comprehension when there is a switch between languages—taking longer to process a “code-switch” than single-language input. However, the magnitude of these comprehension costs varies. In this talk, I present data from a study that attempts to explain variation in code-switch comprehension costs.
Capturing and explaining individual differences in language processing: Triumphs and Challenges
In this week's meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language (CNL) Lab, Hanna Muller (LING) will be leading a discussion on what is meant by "shallow processing".
If you'd like to join this discussion and/or the CNL Lab email list, contact Colin Phillips (colin@umd.edu).
The Interaction Between Processing Speed, Cognitive Control, and Word Retrieval
Title: Prediction in the Processing of Repair Disfluencies
Title: Bridging NLP and brain science to improve natural language understanding
Abstract: Natural language processing systems have made impressive strides in producing useful task-oriented language tools - but even the most sophisticated NLP systems fall dramatically short of the human brain in robustness and nuance of language understanding. A particular area of need in NLP is that of sentence composition: the combinatory capacity that allows humans to generate and understand the meanings of infinite sentences based on their parts.
Title: Precursors of logical reasoning in preverbal infants