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Kathryn Bock
Professor of Psychology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sponsered by Linguistics and ICS

Thursday, March 11  3:30-5:00
Clare Small 207 (Refreshments provided)

"When Mind Meets Mouth"

Kathryn Bock's work focuses on how people turn thoughts into speech. The
fundamental issues behind the research stem from the mismatching time
courses of languages and nonverbal cognition. The effort is to understand
how words, expressed one after another, can be ordered to  represent ideas
whose components may be simultaneously present to the mind's eye. The
explanatory framework combines elements from models of cognitive
processing and from linguistic theory. 

The aim of Bock's research is to trace parts of the cognitive architecture
for human language use. At present, our understanding of language and its
biological bases lags far behind our understanding of the forms of
intelligence that we share with other species, because our
language capacity is in many respects unique. Now, however, imaging
techniques and other non-invasive methodologie promise to illuminate some
of the facets of human language ability. To fully exploit these methods,
investigators will be guided by a blueprint of language's cognitive
architecture. This blueprint represents the structural components of 
language and shows how they are deployed, in ongoing time, in different
kinds of linguistic behaviors. 


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Elizabeth Elder
PhD student
Linguistics Department
U. of Colorado - CB 295
303-492-6747
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If you think education is expensive, 
you ought to try ignorance. - Derek L. Bok