具身语义学前沿讲座

发布日期: 2019-11-12 浏览次数:
题目:感知动觉语义研究:How the content of our thoughts is structured by perception and action
主讲人:Louise Connell 教授
时间:2019-11-15 10:00 至 2019-11-15 11:00
地点:逸夫楼411
主办单位:外国语学部英语学院
讲座内容:

debate how we mentally represent concepts as diverse as cat, democracy, and fear.  Grounded theories of representation hold that the same neural systems engaged during perceptual and action experience are also engaged when meaning is processed during language comprehension and other conceptual tasks.  In other words, the conceptual system has effectively co-opted the sensorimotor system for the purposes of representation.  I discuss two critical corollaries of this perspective.  First, all concepts in long-term memory must be sensorimotor to some extent: because conceptual processing relies on sensorimotor neural systems, it provides a grounding mechanism for all concepts, even traditionally abstract ones, meaning that there is no such thing as a non-sensorimotor concept.  Second, ongoing perception and action must affect conceptual representation in short-term (working) memory: because conceptual information is grounded in sensorimotor systems, concurrent sensorimotor processing of the surrounding environment affects what is retrieved and represented during conceptual processing. I present recent work from my lab that illustrates the sensorimotor basis of a full-size conceptual system of approximately 40 thousand concepts, and demonstrates how sophisticated categorical structure emerges spontaneously from sensorimotor experience across both concrete and abstract domains. I also review experimental evidence showing that representational content depends on how ongoing perceptual demands direct attention to modality-specific systems. These findings illustrate that theories and models of meaning must not only acknowledge that conceptual knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor systems, but also incorporate the ability of current bodily states to systematically alter the content of conceptual representations.

Louise Connell, 英国Lanchaster大学语言认知科研负责人,认知心理语言学教授,国际期刊和国际学术组织重要负责人,中美英联合智慧语言实验平台顾问,ilab实验室顾问,“具身语言——人工智能时代的语言科学”大会执行秘书。她的研究兴趣是认知科学的交叉研究,她发表论文聚焦在心理表征和概念表征的自然科学,以及这些心理和概念表征如何在语言理解中生成和实现语义通达。她最主要的近期成果是感知动觉经验的作用,在认知中语言信息分布作用,她使用实验心理学、语言数据库、数据科学、计算模拟科学完成她的研究议题。她的科学研究获得欧洲研究协会、英联邦经济和社会科学协会,英国科学院等机构支持。她2004年于都柏林大学获得博士学位,并在曼彻斯特大学任教,于2013年受聘兰卡斯特大学教授职位。她发表论文与自然、行为与研究科学(评述类论文)、心理科学、认知科学、实验心理学等顶级心理学和自然科学期刊。