The neuropragmatics of dialogue and discourse

Many cognitive scientists have advanced ‘embodied’ models of human language, in which language is connected in some way to the sensorimotor (SM) mechanisms that engage with the world. I’ll introduce a

What post-encoding processes cause forgetting? For decades there had been controversy as to whether forgetting is caused by decay over time or by interference from irrelevant information, and a

Recent years have seen the emergence of theories that can be used to analyze a variety of phenomena characteristic of conversational interaction, including non-sentential utterances, manual

The talk will present four sets of studies with young infants and children to show who prosody helps them learn about different aspects of language, from learning basic word order through

In spite of high genetic overlap and broadly similar neural organization between humans and non-human primates, humans surpass all other species in their abilities to solve novel problems, in the

Universal Anaphora and Dialogue Phenomena

Multimodal dialogue, the use of speech and non-speech signals, is the basic form of interaction. As such, it is couched in the basic interaction mechanism of grounding and repair. This

The Integrative Memory model describes the core mechanisms leading to recollection (i.e., to recall qualitative details about a past event) and familiarity (i.e., to identify some event as

I will argue that record types in TTR (a type theory with records) can be used to model mental states such as memory or belief. For example, a type modelling a belief or memory state is a type of