Innovation in Linguisticsby Cognitive Semantics (5)
讲座简介“语言学创新”系列讲座（Innovation in Linguistics）由北京航空航天大学外国语学院英文国际期刊Cognitive Semantics（https://brill.com/COSE）主办，致力于向国内外学者分享语言学领域相关研究话题的最新研究动向。本公众号为“语言学创新”系列讲座宣传方。
第五讲相关信息
主讲人：Jeffrey M. Zacks教授(Washington University in St. Louis, The United States)主题：Event conceptualizations in language and cognition （语言和认知中的事件概念化）
Jeffrey M. Zacks (BA: Yale, PhD: Stanford) is Professor and Chair of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University, where he studies perception, memory, and action using converging cognitive neuroscience methods across the lifespan. His research has been funded by DARPA, NSF, NIH, ONR, and the McDonnell Foundation. He has served as Associate Editor at Cognition, Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, and Collabra, Chair of the Board of Scientific Affairs of APA, Chair of the governing board of the Psychonomic Society, and President-elect of the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He has received awards from the NSF, Psychonomic Society, APA, APF, and is a fellow of AAAS, APS, APA, the Midwest Psychological Association, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Zacks has written two books, co-written a third, and co-edited two volumes. He has published more than 100 journal articles and also has written for Salon, Aeon, and The New York Times.Personal website:https://psych.wustl.edu/people/jeffrey-zacks
讲座摘要
Mundane everyday events such as making breakfast or cleaning a bedroom have imposingly complex structure—relating time, space, objects, people, causes and effects, goals and plans. To manage this complexity, the mind constructs representations called event models that abstract from the physical structure of the stimuli we encounter to features that are relevant for interaction, planning, and remembering. One valuable payoff of constructing such representations is that they enable effective predictive processing in complex naturalistic domains. The structure of event models determines important aspects of both language use and nonlinguistic cognition. In this talk, I will review behavioral and neurophysiological evidence bearing on the structure and function of event models in language and cognition and propose a mechanism for regulating event model updating.