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SUMMARY:Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds - Prof. Gerry Altmann\, D
 epartment of Psychology\, University of York
DTSTART:20100304T170000Z
DTEND:20100304T183000Z
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CONTACT:Catherine Davies
DESCRIPTION:The world about us changes at an extraordinary pace. If langua
 ge is to have any influence on what we attend to\, that influence has to b
 e exerted at a pace that can keep up. In this talk I shall focus on two as
 pects of this requirement: The speed with which language can mediate visua
 l attention\, and the fact that the cognitive system can very efficiently 
 make up for the fact that\, to be expedient (i.e. to keep up with the chan
 ging world) we do not in fact refer to all the changes that are associated
  with\, or entailed\, by an event. Rather\, we infer aspects of those chan
 ges. One example of this is through elaborative inference\, and another is
  through the manner in which we track (often unstated) changes in the stat
 es of objects as those objects undergo change. The talk will conclude with
  data suggesting that multiple representations of the same object in diffe
 rent event-dependent states may compete with one another\, and that this c
 ompetitive process may bring both costs and benefits.
LOCATION:GR05\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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