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- Language and Simulation in the Representation of Abstract Concepts
- 01 October
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MossRehab - Elkins Park PA - Conference Room G1Friday, October 01, 2010, 4pm
Lawrence Barsalou is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Psychology at Emory University. Barsalou’s research addresses the nature of human knowledge, and its roles in perception, memory, language, and thought. The current theme of his research is that the human conceptual system is grounded in the brain’s modal systems. Specific topics of interest include whether (and if so how) modal systems implement symbolic operations and abstract concepts. Other lines of research address the situated character of knowledge, the dynamic online construction of conceptual representations, the development of ad hoc categories to support goal achievement, the structure of knowledge, and category learning. Barsalou’s research has been funded primarily by the National Science Foundation. He has held a Guggenheim fellowship; served as the chair of the Cognitive Science Society; won an award for graduate teaching from the University of Chicago; is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Mind and Life Institute.
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