Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Scientific Speed Dating
Please join us on for Scientific Speed Dating for CLS faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and visitors. We will follow the format of previous speed-dating events. This is a great opportunity to discuss your research and ideas, and to connect with fellow CLS members and be mutually inspired. We hope to see you there!
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Eilzabeth Schotter
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Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Victoria Cano Sánchez
Recent research in psycholinguistics has largely focused on adults under thirty, often assuming that language abilities remain stable after acquisition, a view now challenged by emerging evidence (Griffin and Spieler, 2005). This research addresses that gap by investigating how healthy aging affects language comprehension in Spanish, with a particular focus on predictive processing and agreement
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Faranak Kianfar
Aphasia, often marked by anomia, affects communication, especially when abstract words are impaired. Abstract words form a large portion of everyday vocabulary; their loss significantly affects expression and comprehension. Most anomia therapies emphasize concrete words, but the Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training (AbSANT) approach targets abstract words and promotes generalization to concrete ones. Its bilingual
Young Language Science Scholar: Anne L. Beatty-Martínez
“Bilingualism Reveals How Experience Shapes Language and the Brain” Variation in language experience plays an important role in our understanding of language learning and processing. Increasing evidence suggests that the ways in which bilinguals use their languages with different people and across distinct interactional contexts may contribute to observed variability in processing trajectories and outcomes.
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Rachel Showstack
“Alce su Voz” (‘Speak Out’) is a community-engaged program housed within Wichita State University’s modern language department that strives to improve health equity for individuals with non-English language preference (NELP). The program emerged from a series of Spanish-language community meetings that Rachel Showstack and her students facilitated in Wichita, Kansas in early 2020 to explore
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Mackenzie Gentz
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Center for Language Science Speaker Series: John Lipski
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Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Michael Putnam
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Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Chaleece Sandberg
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Dr. Michele Diaz (CLS, Penn State)
“Age-Related Differences in Language Production and Semantic Memory Networks” Michele Diaz, Ph.D Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, & Neuroscience Director of Human Imaging: SLEIC of Psychology Although age is often associated with cognitive change, language abilities show complex patterns of both spared and impaired performance. In this talk, she will discuss two areas of their lab’s
Dr. Annie Olmstead
“Intelligibility of Speech Produced in Communicative Interactions Between People With Dysarthria Secondary to ALS and Their Interlocutors” Annie Olmstead, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Penn State Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Interpersonal communication is a highly dynamic process during which interlocutors continuously share information with one another in both linguistic and non-linguistic forms. This information sharing