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DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Research on Language\, Mind and Brain welcomes D
 r.\nPeter Hagoort (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguisics\, Donders\nIn
 stitute for Brain\, Cognition and Behaviour\, Radboud University\,\nNijmeg
 en) who will present a Distinguished Lecture entitled\n'Beyond the Languag
 e Given: Language Processing from an\nEmbrained Perspective.'\nAbstract:\n
 A central and influential idea among researchers of language is\nthat our 
 language faculty is organized according to Fregean\ncompositionality\, whi
 ch implies that the meaning of an utterances\nis a function of the meaning
  of its parts and of the syntactic\nrules by which these parts are combine
 d. The implication of this\nidea is that beyond word recognition\, languag
 e interpretation takes\nplace in a two-step fashion. First\, the meaning o
 f a sentence is\ncomputed. In a second step the sentence meaning is integr
 ated with\ninformation from prior discourse\, with world knowledge\, with
 \ninformation about the speaker\, and with semantic information from\nextr
 alinguistic domains such as co-speech gestures or the visual\nworld. FMRI 
 results and results from recordings of event related\nbrain potentials wil
 l be presented that are inconsistent with this\nclassical Fregean model of
  language intepretation. Our data support\na model in which knowledge abou
 t the context and the world\,\nknowledge about concomitant information fro
 m other modalities\, and\nknowledge about the speaker are brought to bear 
 immediately\, by the\nsame fast-acting brain system that combines the mean
 ings of\nindividual words into a message-level representation. The Memory\
 ,\nUnification and Control (MUC) model of language accounts for these\ndat
 a. Resting state connectivity data\, and results from\nPsycho-Physiologica
 l Interactions will be discussed\, suggesting a\ndivision of labour betwee
 n temporal and inferior frontal cortex.\nThese results indicate that Broca
 ’s area and adjacent cortex play\nan important role in semantic and syntac
 tic unification operations.\nI will also discuss fMRI results that indicat
 e the insufficiency of\nthe Mirror Neuron Hypothesis to explain language u
 nderstanding.\nInstead I will sketch a picture of language processing from
  an\nembrained perspective.\n
DTSTART:20100416T170000Z
DTEND:20100416T183000Z
LOCATION:CA\, 1160 Pine Ave. West\, 1160 Pine Ave. West\, Goodman Cancer Re
 search Centre\, Room 501
SUMMARY:Dr. Peter Hagoort: CRLMB Distinguished Lecture Series - CANCELLED d
 ue to travel disruption
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