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SUMMARY:I saw\, I unsaw\, I resaw: how we access and make use of unconscio
 us knowledge about verbal roots - Linnaea Stockall\, Queen Mary University
  of London
DTSTART:20141113T163000Z
DTEND:20141113T183000Z
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CONTACT:Jamie Douglas
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I'll discuss a number of experiments investigatin
 g how we rapidly and accurately access information about the verbal roots 
 of morphologically complex words like 'saw' or 'jumped'\, and morphologica
 lly complex pseudo words like 'unthink' and 'redance'. The experiments ran
 ge from simple button press experiments in which participants say whether 
 they think strings like 'ungrow' are a possible word of English or not\, t
 hrough eye-movement studies in which words like 'unthinkable' occur in nat
 ural sentence context\, to studies using MEG to investigate the millisecon
 d by millisecond neural activation patterns involved in processing complex
  words. I'll show that by focusing on the apparently simple question of ho
 w we detect and make use of information about verbal roots\, we can gain s
 ignificant insight into the overall architecture of the human linguistic s
 ystem.
LOCATION:GR06-7\, English Faculty\, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site)
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