2020年5月27日Edward Gibson教授-官方讲座视频回放+讲座PPT-Language processing over a noisy channel

27 May 2020 (21:00 HK time) Language processing over a noisy channel 

Edward Gibson (MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) 

Professor of Cognitive Science  ，Brain & Cognitive Sciences

讲座PPT查看和地址下载：

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视频回放密码及地址： 

password: 8T&M@0!7

https://cuhk.zoom.us/rec/share/wpV6IYn_3FpOf6vp2lDVBIwOJ5bGX6a8gSMYr_MOzUz3IhcdLIhpHkqLp_qJ4Agw

RESEARCH

Research in the Gibson Lab (“TedLab”) is aimed at investigating (1) why human languages look the way they do; (2) the relationship between culture and cognition, including language; and, most generally, (3) how people learn, represent and process language.

We use a variety of methods, including behavioral experiments (e.g., reading and listening studies, many simple methods in working with remote populations, dual-task experiments, individual differences studies), statistical modeling and corpus analyses. In collaboration with other labs we also use functional MRI, event-related potentials (ERPs) and eye-tracking.

The major lines of research pursued in the lab:

Information processing and cross-linguistic universals

The relationship between culture and cognition / language

Language processing

1.What are the informational constraints that affect language processing? The informational constraints we have investigated include:

Syntactic information

Lexical information

Plausibility (world knowledge) information

Prosodic information

Pragmatic inference

Discourse coherence information

Information structure

Resource constraints (the working memory system underlying language processing)

2.What is the nature of the resource constraints in language processing and what is the best way of quantifying them?

To what extent is the working memory system underlying language processing domain-specific? The language constraints?

3.Methodological questions about this research

The value of doing quantitative research in syntax and semantics

Meta-analysis in syntactic priming research

Publications

Gibson E, Fedorenko E. Weak quantitative standards in linguistics research. Trends Cogn Sci. 2010 Apr 1. [Epub ahead of print]

Tily H, Fedorenko E, Gibson E. The time-course of lexical and structural processes in sentence comprehension. Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester). 2010 May;63(5):910-27. Epub 2009 Sep 10.

Fedorenko E, Patel A, Casasanto D, Winawer J, Gibson E. Structural integration in language and music: evidence for a shared system. Mem Cognit. 2009 Jan;37(1):1-9.

Frank MC, Everett DL, Fedorenko E, Gibson E. Number as a cognitive technology: evidence from Pirah� language and cognition. Cognition. 2008 Sep;108(3):819-24. Epub 2008 Jun 10.