LINGUIST List 23.2879
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Fri Jun 29 2012
Confs: Cognitive Science, Semantics/Italy
Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang
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Date: 29-Jun-2012
From: Margherita Donati <margherita-donatilibero.it>
Subject: Semantic Representations in the Blind
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Semantic Representations in the Blind
Date: 05-Oct-2012 - 06-Oct-2012
Location: Pisa, Italy
Contact: Giovanna Marotta
Contact Email: < click here to access email >
Meeting URL: http://blind.humnet.unipi.it
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Semantics
Meeting Description:
This conference intends to provide insights on the semantic representations in congenitally blind people from the perspectives of linguistics, vision and cognitive neurosciences, focusing on two domains where the relationship between language, conceptual structure and senso-motory information is particularly relevant, i.e. concrete terms and spatial language.
The conference brings together an international and interdisciplinary pool of experts facing the topic from several theoretical and methodological approaches.
Furthermore, the results of the Italian PRIN project 2008 Semantic representations in the language of the blind: linguistic and neurocognitive studies will be presented and discussed.
The conference is co-organized by Giovanna Marotta (University of Pisa), Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) and Marco Baroni (University of Trento).
October 5, 2012
9.00
Greetings
9.15-9.45
G. Marotta (University of Pisa)
Introduction
9.45-10.45
K. Mcrae (University of Western Ontario)
A Link between Familiarity Impairments in Recognition Memory and Impairments in Familiarity Assessment for Concepts Acquired over the Lifetime
10.45-11.00
Coffee break
11.00-12.00
A. Oliva (Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT)
Visual Scene Understanding in Human and Machine Vision
12.00-13.00
A. Lenci & M. Baroni (University of Pisa & University of Trento)
Colorless Concepts: Semantic feature norms from the congenital blind
13.00-14.30
Lunch
14.30-15.30
J. Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
The Function of Space and the Space of Function
15.30-16.30
M. L. Noordzij (University of Twente)
On the Role of Visual Experience and Culture in Understanding and Giving Spatial Descriptions: Theories, empirical findings and possible applications
16.30-16.45
Coffee break
16.45-17.45
C. Iacobini (University of Salerno)
Implicational Scales in Motion Event Encoding
17.45-18.45
L. Meini & M. Donati (University of Pisa)
Talking about Space: Evidence from blind and sighted people
20.00
Social dinner
October 6, 2012
9.00-10.00
P. Pietrini (University of Pisa)
The Blind Brain
10.00-11.00
T. Vecchi (University of Pavia)
The Effect of Visual Impairment on Spatial Representations
11.00-11.15
Coffee break
11.15-12.00
E. Ricciardi, A. Lenci, G. Marotta (University of Pisa)
Neurosemantic Decoding in the Dark
12.00-13.00
Panel on the social life of blind
13.00
Conclusion
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