[CaBSSem] [Psychat] Cognition & Brain Sciences Seminar 3 pm on Friday 8th March

[Daniel Bub]

This Friday's CABS seminar will held at 3 pm (the usual time).


On the Dynamics of Action Representations Evoked by Names of Manipulable Objects


Daniel Bub and Mike Masson


Two classes of hand action representations are shown to be activated by listening to the name of a manipulable object (e.g., cellphone). The functional action associated with the proper use of an object is evoked soon after the onset of its name, as indicated by primed execution of that action. Priming is sustained throughout the duration of the word’s enunciation. Volumetric actions (those used to simply lift an object) show a negative priming effect at the onset of a word, followed by a short-lived positive priming effect. This time-course pattern is explained by a dual-process mechanism involving frontal and parietal lobes for resolving conflict between candidate motor responses. Both types of action represen- tations are proposed to be part of the conceptual knowledge recruited when the name of a manipulable object is encountered, although functional actions play a more central role in the representation of lexical concepts.

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This Friday's CABS seminar will feature Alan Kingstone from UBC

https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/


<https://psych.ubc.ca/profile/alan-kingstone/> From  Alan's website:

Dr. Alan Kingstone is the director of the Brain, Attention and Reality Lab at UBC. He has pioneered methods and approaches to the study of attention and cognitive ethology, such that his research strongly connects with people as they interact in the world around them. The lab’s multidisciplinary research program includes work with children, patients, and healthy adults using a variety of techniques (e.g. natural observation, eye tracking, brain imaging, body motion tracking), all aimed at answering questions ranging from basic aspects of visual attention to more complex aspects of social cognition. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Association for Psychological Science.

The seminar will be held in person in the Reading Room beginning at 3 pm.

 Exploring the interplay between mind perception and attention in controlled environments and complex realities

Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia

We effortlessly categorize people as possessing minds. Yet, the extent to which we attribute minds to individuals can vary, with real people perceived to have more mind than depictions of them, such as photographs. I examine how different shades of mind affect human behavior and attention. By employing diverse research methodologies, including naturalistic observation, mobile eye tracking, and surreptitious behavior monitoring, I also reveal a fundamental interplay between overt attention (where one looks) and covert attention (attending to someone out of the corner of one's eye).


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