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CFIN and MIB guest talk: Ruth de Diego Balaguer (University of Barcelona)

ICREA Research Professor at Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Ruth de Diego Balaguer will visit Aarhus and give a CFIN & MIB guest talk.

Info about event

Time

Monday 4 December 2017,  at 13:30 - 14:30

Location

CFIN and MIB meeting room, 5th floor, AUH, building 10G, Nørrebrogade 44, Aarhus C

Organizer

CFIN / Professor Yury Shtyrov

Ruth de Diego-Balaguer
ICREA, University of Barcelona 

Title: Attention through Prediction: a Two-Stage Language Learning Mechanism

Abstract:

Humans as other animals are predictive beings. When confronted with a new learning we not only create new memory traces but we constantly extract patterns or predictive regularities from our stimulation. In speech, this latter mechanism is even more relevant since auditory stimulation unfolds in time and prediction of upcoming elements is critical for optimal processing. In this talk, I will present a series of studies dissecting the characteristics of this predictive mechanism and highlighting its importance in the extraction of rules in language. I will present evidence indicating that this predictive mechanism is endogenously driven but implicit. It is intimately related to goal-directed attention but can be dissociated functionally and neuroanatomically from it.


Read more about Ruth de Diego Balaguer at:

https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/ruth-de-diego--balaguer-433