From owner-cse575-fa08-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Nov 12 09:00:26 2008 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:09:29 -0500 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: CogSci TODAY-JCTrueswell-Attention Allocation during Event Perception To: CSE575-FA08-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU ======================================================================== TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY ======================================================================== Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo presents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John C. Trueswell Department of Psychology Director of IGERT Language and Communication Program Director of Institute for Research in Cognitive Science University of Pennsylvania http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~trueswel/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, 12 November 2008; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attention Allocation during Event Perception: Does Language Matter? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT: What role does language play in attention allocation during event perception? What role does it play in remembering events? I will present the results from a series of eye-tracking studies in which participants (N=40) viewed simple animated motion events that contained both a manner of motion (e.g., skating) and an endpoint path (approaching a snowman). Half of the participants were native speakers of Greek, a language that tends to describe motion as goal-directed paths (approaching), and half were native speakers of English, which prefers manner/instruments (skating). Participants were assigned to a range of tasks, including: describing each event, passively studying each event, studying while engaged in a linguistic interference task, and studying while engaged in a nonlinguistic interference task. The results reveal strong differences in attention allocation among language groups when language was available as an encoding strategy. I will discuss the implications for event representation and encoding. (This work is done in collaboration with Anna Papafragou, University of Delaware.) Background reading: Papafragou, A.; Hulbert, J.; & Trueswell, J.C. (2008), "Does Language Guide Event Perception? Evidence from Eye Movements", Cognition 108(1): 155-184. http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~trueswel/Trueswell_Papers/PHT_2008.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Schedule for John Trueswell ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, 12 November 2008: 9:00- 9:30 a.m. Erica Su 9:30-10:30 a.m. Sunfa Kim 10:30-11:00 a.m. Dent lab: Tom Welch, Kelley Radziwon 11:00-11:30 a.m. Luce lab: Paul Luce, Micah Geer 12:00- 1:00 p.m. brown-bag lunch in 209 Park Hall--all welcome Erica Su, Hongoak Yun, Sunfa Kim, Tom Welch, Kelley Radziwon, Gail Mauner 1:30- 2:00 p.m. talk preparation 2:00- 4:00 p.m. Colloquium in 280 Park Hall: "Attention Allocation during Event Perception: Does Language Matter?" 4:00- 5:00 p.m. Jeruen Dery, Paul Heider 5:00- 6:00 p.m. Doug Roland 6:30- 8:00 p.m. dinner with Gail Mauner, David Braun Email Gail Mauner, mauner@buffalo.edu if you are interested in joining for dinner Thursday, 13 November 2008: 9:30-10:00 a.m. Derek Daniels 10:00-11:00 a.m. Hongoak Yun 11:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. available for meetings ======================================================================== IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN DINNER OR MEETING WITH TRUESWELL, PLEASE CONTACT GAIL MAUNER, mauner@buffalo.edu ======================================================================== Complete Fall schedule @ www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/Activities/Colloquium/CLLQf08/2008fall.html Background readings for each lecture are available to UB faculty and students on UB Learns. Once you have logged in to UB Learns at https://ublearns.buffalo.edu/ select "Center for Cognitive Science", then "Course Documents", then "Background Readings for Fall 2008 Colloquium Series". Or link directly to: https://ublearns.buffalo.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_60597_1&content_id=_1010420_1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, please visit: http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/ or contact: William J. Rapaport Webmaster, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy & Linguistics 201 Bell Hall | (716) 645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: (716) 645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport Buffalo Restaurant Guide: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/ Good Things about Buffalo: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/buffalo.html