University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc) > I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about verbal roots

  Browse A-Z

Log in

Googledetails Microsoftdetails

🔐 Log In

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

ℹī¸ Information

I saw, I unsaw, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscious knowledge about verbal roots

Download to your calendar using vCal

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Jamie Douglas .

In this talk I’ll discuss a number of experiments investigating how we rapidly and accurately access information about the verbal roots of morphologically complex words like ‘saw’ or ‘jumped’, and morphologically complex pseudo words like ‘unthink’ and ‘redance’. The experiments range from simple button press experiments in which participants say whether they think strings like ‘ungrow’ are a possible word of English or not, through eye-movement studies in which words like ‘unthinkable’ occur in natural sentence context, to studies using MEG to investigate the millisecond by millisecond neural activation patterns involved in processing complex words. I’ll show that by focusing on the apparently simple question of how we detect and make use of information about verbal roots, we can gain significant insight into the overall architecture of the human linguistic system.

This talk is part of the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc) series.

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

Other lists

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building. Old Hall, Queens' College (tbc) Wolfson Lecture Theatre & ONLINE - Details to be sent by email

Other talks

External Seminar - Hilde Nelissen TBC Sera Markoff Inaugural Lecture for the Plumian Professorship in Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy - 'Staring into the heart of darkness: from theory to the direct imaging of black holes' Welfare Reform and the Imperative of Cooperation Precision psychiatry Pancreatic cancer - the clinical challenge;  Why the microenvironment matters during pancreatic cancer progression and treatment Security Cooperation within Government and between Governments
 

Š 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity