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Gary Lupyan - gost Tribine Odseka za psihologiju

U utorak, 19. oktobra u 10.30h u Svečanoj sali, gost Tribine Odseka za psihologiju biće prof. Gary Lupyan sa Viskonsin-Medison Univerziteta u Americi (https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lupyan/web/).

Prof. Lupyan će govoriti na temu: The Evocative Power of Words: Language modulates visual processing.
Apstrakt predavanja:

The Evocative Power of Words: Language modulates visual processing.

Humans are not the only animals to form categories, but are the only ones to have names for their categories. Beyond making linguistic communication possible, do words (verbal labels) enable or facilitate certain cognitive and perceptual processes?  I will present findings from a variety of paradigms showing that verbal labels modulate ongoing perceptual processing in surprisingly deep ways. This linguistic modulation of perception may have important consequences for higher-level cognition such as the learning of new categories (Lupyan et al., 2007), memory (Lupyan, 2008), and conceptually grouping items along a particular dimension (e.g., color) (Lupyan, 2009) as well as inference in reasoning.

These findings suggest that language reorganizes conceptual representations and dynamically modulates representations that have been presumed to be immune from linguistic influence. The theoretical view emerging from these findings speaks to the inherent difficulty in distinguishing verbal and nonverbal representations and compels a re-examination of the Whorfian hypothesis.

 


 
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