Theme: Language, cognition, and consciousness
Organizer: Jeff Yoshimi
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Sept. 9: Andrew Wedel (U. Arizona) SSM 117
Lexical competition and the evolution of phoneme inventories
Sept. 16: Bruce West (Duke U.)
Individuality, imitation and influence
Sept. 23: Kent Johnson (UC Irvine)
Factor analysis: Underdetermination and uncertainties
Oct. 7: Matthew Fulkerson (UC San Diego)
Sensory affect
Oct. 14: Kerri Johnson
Categorization at the Crossroads: Mechanisms by Which Intersecting Identities Alter Social Perception
Oct. 22: David J. Peterson* (Conlang)
Under the Animal Belly of HBO: Conceptual Metaphor in Created Languages
Oct. 28: Stephen Palmer (UC Berkeley)
Color, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes
Nov. 4: Geoffrey Lee (UC Berkeley)
Subjective Duration
Nov. 12: Thomas Hannagan* (Aix-Marseille)
Language processing in adults and baboons: the unreasonable efficiency of the Delta rule
Nov. 18: Kevin Holmes (UC Berkeley)
Exploring the language-thought interface beyond the level of words
Nov. 25: Teenie Matlock (UC Merced)
Framing framing: When the more subtle details of language matter
Dec. 2: Shannon Vallor (Santa Clara)
The virtue of attention: ethical and cognitive implications of media multitasking
Dec. 9: Mahesh Srinivasan (UC Berkeley)
The role of children’s cognitive biases in the structure of the lexicon: Cross-linguistic evidence from polysemy